Digital BW, The Print

Tim,

You're not missing anything. I believe you said you are using a 1280 with
Epson dye inks?  I have seen little or no metamerism with Epson dye inks.

When you print a duotone from an Epson archival pigment printer you use 6
inks to reproduce the duotone (or tri or quad) that you created in
Photoshop. In my experience all duotones produced from Epson pigment inks
suffer some degree of metamerism... others have had better luck I'm told.

If you could print using two inks (a true duotone from a press) then maybe
this would help??  I don't find metamerism with the Epson pigment black so
am wondering which or how many of the inks actually contribute to it.


Carolyn

> 
> My ignorance is gonna show here but here goes. I have read all the
> posts on the list and others and I don't understand. Why not use
> duotone printing with color inks, like a selenium-type tone? My eyes
> aren't the best but I don't notice any metamerism using this method.
> The prints look fine and if you were in a darkroom most people would
> use a selenium-tone for archival purposes. I may very well be missing
> something and if I am chalk it up to stupidity or inexperience on my
> part.
> 
> Tim 
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