Digital BW, The Print

Hello Martin,

We all start out as newbies at one time and that is our common 
ground which drives us to help others. I know the feeling of being 
overwhelmed by the terms and ideas, even though I have pursued 
photography as a hobby for 35 years. Only in the past year have I 
delved into digital imaging, and have gotten more satisfaction from 
it than all the years before. I settled down with my procedure that 
works for me, and that is what we all end up doing. I use a Nikon 
D5700 and an Epson 1280 printer with hextone inks. The company I get 
ink from is www.inksupply.com which is MIS ink company. On their web 
site is an abundance of information and maybe an overabundance of 
information depending on your level of interest. I also tried 
Clayton Jones Black only printing and was pleased with it also. That 
will get you a very good print right away and keep your interest up 
without becoming discouraged too easily.

Your friend in photography,

Johnny Eades



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Martin Howard 
<mvhoward@m...> wrote:
> 
> I plunged into digital B&W printing about two months ago and have 
since 
> discovered that something I thought was simple and straight 
forward is 
> extremely complex.  I haven't been very successful in finding a 
good 
> source of information were I can learn how the various phenomena 
are 
> manifested (colour casts, metamerism, shifts, bronzing, etc.) or 
what 
> controls them.  I find the tens of different options (quadtones, 
> hextones, septtones, RIPs, printer drivers, separate drivers, 
profiling 
> equipment, whatnot) very confusing and I don't know how to choose 
> between them... or to determine what is right for me and the 
budget 
> that I willing to devote to this.
> 
> Is there such a source?  Online or in a book?  I can't access the 
Files 
> section of the Yahoo! groups page, because it refuses to 
acknowledge 
> that I subscribe to this group -- despite having gone through the 
whole 
> "verification of membership" process twice.
> 
> M.