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Re: [Digital BW] How neutral are your B&W prints on the Epson 2200?

2003-03-04 by bbstudio_photo <bbstudio_photo@yahoo.com>

I now have a 2200 but plan to use it for color only, because I don't feel I can 
trust a very colorful inkset to stay dead neutral under all conditions and media. 
I saw a print exhibited as an "Ultrachrome Black and White" last month among 
art in various other media, and this print looked pink. I am going to continue 
using a quadtone printer for B&W.

Regarding black-and-white on Lightjet-type printers: Does anyone produce 
black-and-white prints on these machines using black-and-white paper? 
Seems like that is the ultimate cure for a neutral digital B&W print, outside of a 
monochrome inkjet.

Conrad

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Sue Tallon <
suetallon@b...> wrote:
> Even the lightjet prints which are also a color system (although not inks)
> are very difficult to get neutral and eliminate metamerism.  Sooo, I'm
> beginning to feel that at this point Piezography which is using black and
> gray inks only is probably the most neutral

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