Digital BW, The Print

Tim, I just printed some black and white prints today, using the MIS
color inkset and the Torchon Profile I had made for the printer. (1160) 
On Torchon, Epson Archival and Eclipse paper, this profile works very
well indeed. No color cross overs, and a very close to neutral tone. I
was absolutely amazed to get consistent black and white prints from the
MIS color inkset. 

There are a couple ways to go, each offering a tiny different color
tone. One is printing from an RGB file, and the other from a Grayscale
file, both using the entire set of inks.  The nicest tone was from the
grayscale file. Almost identical to the quality you can get with the MIS
VM inksets on these papers. I'm going to put a print in the south window
tomorrow and see how the changes occur over the next couple months. Of
course you don't have the option for warm and cool prints with the
grayscale file, but you would with the color file.

Haven't tried duotone prints with this setup yet, but I will tomorrow
when the light is good.


Jerry

tyork@... wrote:
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> 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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