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

2001-09-11 by Jerry Olson

Yup, Metamerism raised it's ugly head last night with the MIS color
inkset and black and white prints. Too much to accept, toward the red,
I'm afraid. A Real Pity.

Oh well, back the the VM MIS inks....

Jerry




daviddstock@... wrote:
> 
> --- 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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