Digital BW, The Print

janherma wrote:

>Keith,
>
>I remember that you were using Lyson SG or QB inks on 1270/90 
>printers, are you still using them and and if you do what are your 
>comments about them, and what papers do you use?
>
>  
>
I use the SG's on the advice of friends at Lyson, the QBs are an older 
and more metameric dyeset,...

I've used them on a host of Glossy and Lustre papers..  My favorite 
lustre paper for them is the Ilford Galerie Smooth Pearl..  The Canon 
Pro Photo Glossy tops my list of Glossy options or Red River Polar 
Gloss..  They work well even on things like Red River's Silver (a 
reflective mylar material forget about serious profiling for this paper),,

I did have some noticeable metamerism with ONE coated matte paper, I 
wish I could remember which one (I know it was a Hahnemuhle paper - 210 
gsm "Coarse Felt" I think - no loss as Lyson's Standard Fine Art is 
basically a version of that paper with a coating tweaked by Lyson - no 
problems with the latter) .. Uncoated papers seem fine if you can deal 
with the reduced saturation of course.. I've even printed some really 
neat faux cyano-types on Red River Sheer for Backlighting..

I've had very little clogging and be VERY happy with this inkset.. One 
thing I REALLY like is that I was able to actually profile them using 
Profiler Plus!  That makes it a lot easier to predict my final results..

That said, I have another machine dedicated to MIS inks when I want the 
current ultimate in inklife and/or can just as easily use matte output 
that falls in a traditional B&W print range The SG's offer a much wider 
range of hue options while the MIS inks let me go from warm near sepia 
to nice and cold traditional print tones.

I'll use the Ultratones for my MIS dedicated machine if/when they have 
sets that  can go as warm as the current MIS VM-Sepia and as cold as the 
MIS-VM. Until then, I'm still using the MIS VM sets.. Even so, I will 
keep the SGs in the workflow, as IMHO they offer tonal options no other 
inkset can match.
Keith

 

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