Digital BW, The Print

Peter: At the risk of generalizing, it seems to me that most of the
problems are centered around those trying to use a 2200 for b&w
printing. It's just not the ideal b&w printer. The 1280 and 1160 seem
much more suitable. 

Bob Michaels

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, peter nelson
<peter@s...> wrote:
> At 04:27 PM 2/12/2003 +0000,
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
> wrote:
> >Peter: FWIW, my expereince was that you can load MIS VM ink carts in a
> >1280, use the Roark workflow and get same quality prints in the amount
> >of time necessary to learn how to do the same in a wet darkroom.
> >Ditto, the MIS FSN inks with Woolf workflow. Ditto, Black Only using
> >Clayton Jones workflow. None will be great but at least the quality as
> >a beginning wet darkroom worker having spent the same time.
> 
> But then why do so many other people say they can't get
> such results even after trying real hard?  This just reinforces
> what I was saying before that it's apparently hit or miss, and
> it works well for SOME people.   Why is there such inconsistency
> in people's experiences on this?