Digital BW, The Print

Hello Cristian,

> But sadly even using black ink I get 
> Metamerism and the prints shift to green under daylight

> But EAM.....I have to miss something because the results 
>are so poor. Mis Inks are neutral under every lighting 
>condition but tonal transition is much poorer than on Color 
> Life,Glossy or Semi Gloss and they lack depth. 

Sorry to hear you are having such trouble using your 1290.  I'm using
an 870 (6-ink) and getting really fine results (strong blacks,
excellent tonal gradation, no metamerism, negligible color shifting)
with black-only using MIS ink on EAM and PR.  Makes me think it must
be something in your settings.  

If you would like to see an example please send 2 stamps to me at

 Clayton Jones
 PO Box 7596
 West Palm Beach, FL 33405

and I'll send you a 4x5 print on PhotoRag. 

Here's basically what I do:

- scanned Tri-X neg in PS7 in Gray Scale mode
- assigned profile is Gray Gamma 2.2
- print using Epson driver with these settings
    - Ink = black
    - resolution = Photo 1440 dpi
    - High Speed is checked
    - color control = gamma 2.2
    - contrast/brightness sliders are at 0
    - paper setting is Matte Paper - Heavyweight

With few exceptions I get equally satisfying results on EAM and PR,
without having to change anything.  I hope this helps.

Regards, - cj