Digital BW, The Print

At 06:34 AM 2/11/2003 +0000, DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
wrote:
>Metamerism is a fact of inkjet reality, especially with pigs -- what is
>the "consumer" not getting here?  The copy is pretty clear that you are
>expected to tweak your images for the lighting condition.. I suppose
>EPSON should put a big bold RED "WARNING METAMERISM: your B&W prints may
>not appear neutral when displayed under lighting conditions different
>from those they were printed for"?

Yes because they market it as a printer capable of doing good
black and white imagery.

>It's not marketed as a B&W printer either, but a Color printer that does
>Good B&W imagery

. . . which even you acknowledge here.

Except that the metamerism is so bad that the black and white
prints from this printer are not in any sense of the word "good".
How, for example, are you supposed to make a black and
white print for a client, friend, pr customer,  since you have no
control over what light they're viewing it under?

Also, I collect lithographs from the late 1890's and early 1900's.
They were all made with pigment-based inks, so it's not like
the world hasn't known how to make metamerism-free
pigments for over a century.