Digital BW, The Print

At 02:39 PM 2/9/2003 +0000, DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com wrote:
>The concept of having to maintain TWO printers is not big deal.

Two wide format printers double the cost and take up
space in my tiny studio.

>  . . .
>                                                       You 'could' get
>your printer professionally profiled to narrow the range of error and
>make nice prints in both fields from the same printer.

How would profiling fix metamerism?  That's a property of the ink.
I can get neutral prints just fine with the 2200 - the problem is
they are only neutral under one type of light because of metamerism.


>Photography, for it's 160+ years as a chemical process, has a vast
>variety of processes that have been developed (some dominated), gone
>defunct and even been resurrected.

<etc>

If it makes you happy to imagine yourself a pioneer in a vast
historical enterprise, enjoy yourself.  But all I want to do is
reliably and simply get good black and white prints from images
on my computer.

---peter