Digital BW, The Print

I second this. I've tried Clayton's BO workflow on my 1160 using the MIS
FS/FSN black (side info: the grays are Piezotone Selenium). This
workflow is a good compromise and one may produce decent prints (but
this is *highly dependant to the image's tonal distribution* - no good
for high key images for instance). Unfortunately the extreme detail loss
in the highlights was unacceptable to me - not mentioning many, *many*
dots and obvious dithering patterns. And once you put both BO and
Quadtone prints of the same image side by side... the BO one looks like
trash (the unsatisfactory results I got may be due to my fault/s
though). Anyway the method still holds value; being an alternative
workflow and having a different(!) look indeed.

Regards,
Loris.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jo Brunenberg [mailto:jobnl@...] 
> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 3:21 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Black Only (was Three Articles)
> 
> ...
> 
> I guess for real good B&W I need an extra printer and use 
> something like Piezography BW which ads a number of black and 
> grey shades on one print instead of using 7 colours like the 
> 2200/2100.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Jo Brunenberg
> http://www.jobrunenberg.com