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Re: [Digital BW] re:metamerism and b/w inks

2001-09-11 by daviddstock@earthlink.net

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Jerry Olson 
<jerryolson@r...> wrote:

 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. 
> 

How about metamerism, Jerry? Using profiles, I've had no 
trouble getting good grayscale prints using color inksets. But 
such prints have the reputation for being  either impermanent 
(like the Epson OEM dyes) or metameric (like the Epson and 
Generations pigments). The reported exception has been  
Cone's Color Piezo, which has poor blacks...

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