Digital BW, The Print

Well, from my perspective, that's the rub.

I have an 1160 for BW and a 1270 for color. Color is my primary interest.
Using the 1270 for color with OEM inks, printing on EAM paper, and
using a CDTobie custom profile I have a workflow that allows me to
concentrate on making pictures.

I wouldn't even consider going back to a darkroom
and traditional materials for color.

My experience with BW is far more convoluted and frustrating. I've
printed a lot of step wedges, cleared a lot of clogs and have had a few
reasonable results that I've submitted to the excellent print exchanges
that Tom O'Connell has so generously coordinated. Overall, I've found
BW printing with quadtone inks on inkjet printers to be, for me, a less
than ready for prime time endeavor. I haven't chucked it all as
I know there are folks on this list for who have BW work flows
that allow them to concentrate on making pictures. I'm vaguely
optimistic that someday I'll evolve to that state for BW work.

-JimD

At 03:23 PM 10/12/2002 +0000, treadwinkle wrote:
>Argh.  I
>just want to give the actors I'm shooting a good quality print.  I'm
>so close to going back to film, I don't want to have to spend months
>researching curves, profiles, algorhythms, getting a degree in
>algebra... I just want to select the paper from the Piezo driver and
>go.
>
>Is this possible?  Help me!!! :-)