Digital BW, The Print

David, 

> In a post today, you say you get good b&w with the mis color ink,
> adding 8M and-5C, on the sliders.

Basically that's all, but I'm using an MIS profile made for my epson
printer for Torchon/Mueseum Parchment/Royal Riviera paper. (same paper,
different names).

The profile prints color prints very well, and almost gives a perfect
black and white print. But I do need to add the little bit of magenta
and minus 5 cyan in a color balance adjustment layer to get the tone I like.

I've also tried printing the same image with a canned adobe duotone. It
is the Purple bl4. However I have had to make the purple curve color a
bit more magenta and a hair less cyan to get the nice tones. About the
same amount of magenta and cyan that I had to add for the above print,
that was printed from an RGB file.

A duotone is not a color file, so in order to change the color slightly,
you have to do it in the duotone color square.

I was printing on Epson Arhival Matte papers. I always start tests on
that paper, then go to either Torchon or Eclipse for the finals.

Also, my color prints are made on an 1160, not a 1280.

I will usually just make my black and white prints with the VM MIS inks
on my 1280. I just wanted to see if you can get a really nice black and
white print from the MIS color inks.  You can.

Jerry
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