Digital BW, The Print

Alan,

I was trying the BO workflow for fun, mainly because the grays (color) 
cartridge had run out, but since my new FS-N inkset arrived shortly after I 
began the BO experiment, I didn't get too far with it.

Generally, I'd agree with your observations about fairly high contrast and light 
tonality. In comparison to a standard quadtone print, I'd have to say it doesn't 
hold up. But in comparison to, say, Epson OEM inks on Epson Photo Glossy 
paper, it was much more rich and pleasant to look at. I haven't tried it with a 
really good image yet, however; nor did I print a step wedge. As I said, my 
attentions were diverted by the FS-N inks.

I'm using a Mac Powerbook G4 with OS X 10.1.5. Not sure what version of the 
1160 printer driver I have, because it's not so clear on OS X, but the Epson 
Printer Utility is v1.20. One thing I did do is try to tweak local values in 
Photoshop, rather than using something global like the Epson brightness 
slider. I left the Epson settings unchanged. I'm sorry, I don't recall what they 
were, but I used the settings that someone else on the list posted recently, so 
you might do a search.

Once I get the kinks worked out of the FS-N workflow, I may again try to 
experiment with black-only. Please keep me posted on your progess with it.

Cheers,
Peter

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "A. Huntley" <leicam6@a...> wrote:
> Peter,
> 
> Been following your BO quest with great interest.
. . .
> I would love to get a decent BO print of an image
> that I'm very familiar with printing. Having this I would feel that
> I'm making some sort of valid comparison to my VM quad prints.
> 
> Thank you,
> Alan Huntley