Digital BW, The Print

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>As a last ditch effort I decided to use John Woolf's curves for the
>Epson driver and wouldn't you know it, beautiful. In fact, the print
>was much more neutral. The Piezo (R9)driver prints the FSN inks very
>cool while the Epson driver with Woolf's curves printed very neutral.
>The blacks were much blacker, as many others have attested to. The
>dot pattern is more prominent, but acceptable. Overall it was
>interesting to see the difference with these inks and best of all
>resolve the microbanding.
>


Interesting to see this post. My story is not exactly on the pizo 
topic, but very close.  I had an experience today while printing a 
set of samples out for a client.  The previous day I was having a lot 
of trouble using the MIS-VM workflow on a my 1160.  I had not been 
using that for a while, but a the client wanted to compare the color 
toned black and white prints from one image with a pure black and 
white with no tone. I needed to print a good quad print.

I spent an hour making several tests on a letter size sheet. Nothing 
was working well..It was late and I finally went to bed deciding to 
try to do better in the morning with a clear head`.

This morning I came in to do another test and it turned out perfect! 
At first I couldn't figure out what changed... then while looking at 
the screen I discovered that I was using a desaturated RGB image 
WITHOUT applying the false color curves of that VM workflow.

The great print on the 1160 with quad inks came from using a profile 
I made for  my 1280 for Hahn Photo Rag 308 with MIS Archival Pigment 
Color inks.

Question...has anyone else successfully used the MIS-VM inks without 
applying the false color Roark curves?

Bill Agee
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bill agee studio
capistrano beach, ca / laguna beach, ca

http://www.redsilver.com