Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Jerry Olson 
<jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> Yes. Epson Black has terrible metamerism.  Get the 
> Enhanced Generations 4 Black from Media street. A 
> beautiful black tone, and practically no metamerism. 

The black on the 1280 has metamerism?  I don't own a 1280
but on my 2200 the (matte) black is apparently the only ink
that DOESN'T have metamerism.  

Here's a question: Inks are pigments in a vehicle.  I own a 
collection of stone-plate lithographs that are about 100
years old and they have no metamerism and don't even appear
to have faded/shifted much in the last century.   How come
they knew how to make stable metamerism-free inks back in
1895 and a high-tech heavy R&D company like Epson can't
do it?