Digital BW, The Print

Bill, I have tried it accidentally. The print was quite good, but too
warm for me.

Jerry

Bill Agee wrote:
> 
> >
> >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
> 
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