Digital BW, The Print

At 02:00 AM 2/11/2003 +0000, DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
wrote:
>No reasonably sane individual who has done serious chemical darkroom B&W
>printing ever expected to be able to simply take a photo and without a
>SIGNIFICANT learning curve translate that original image into a print.


Oh, nonsense.  I started doing darkroom printing and
photography at age 13 (1966) in a homemade darkroom in my
basement and within a week I was making better black and
white prints, many of which I still have today, than anything
I've made with any inkjet printer.   So I would be THRILLED
to have something that has no worse a learning curve
than darkroom printing!

 > So, similarly, to produce everyday B&Ws or the
 >occasional portfolio print, we have out-of-the-box answers like the
 >2200.

No, the 2200 out of the box is not capable of producing a black
and white print half as good as what I could make at age 13
with a week's experience under my belt, because of the
metamerism problem.