Digital BW, The Print

I've been using my S9000 (big sibling to the S900) for over a year now..

Bottom line is I love it...

Especially when I use Lyson Fotonics inks and my own profiles..

The Canon canned profile for the OEM inks is crap.. Hell, it's not even 
a proper profile.. It says it's a CMYK monitor profile.. Find me one of 
those and I'll buy you lunch..

As for printing B&W with  the OEM inks, it's do-able.. The best results 
are obtained with OEM inks IF you do Black Only printing. 
 Unfortunately, you'll still get some metamerism then.. (and I won't 
even mention the fact that the black ink will shift to brown over time, 
AFAIK the cyan dye component/colorant in the Black is as fugitive as in 
the EPSON 1270/1280/1290 series)

The Lyson Quad Black are better, but they suffer from metamerism as well..

The best answer for B&W with the S9000/S900 family is:

Lyson Small Gamuts when available
Jon Cones promised new black pigment-based hexset, designed for the 
Canons - how they got the pigs to stay in suspension with such a low 
viscosity is beyond me..

For  info on the S900 from those using it try:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Canon-printers

For unbiased info as the new Cone ink saga plays itself out, go to 
Martin Wesley's:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint

Keith

 

"Just some guy," and caretaker of the Multiverse's largest EPSON printer 
User Community (highly recommended by Vogon Poets and MegaDodo 
Publications), at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EPSONx7x_Printers/
 
"For the rest of you out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together 
guys"

 




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