Digital BW, The Print

At 03:39 PM 5/20/2003, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
>I'd love to be able to produce deep, rich B&W large prints with an ink-jet.
>Going through a lab or doing wet darkroom work myself just isn't an option,
>for both practical and money reasons.  So if I could get really nice results
>from an ink-jet, I'd be very happy.  Yes, I've tried it with my 2000P in
>various modes, but it doesn't please me, and I'm thinking that only a
>dedicated solution with B&W-only inks would really work.  True?

I have one Epson printer (a 1280) dedicated for color and another (a 1270) 
dedicated to black and white (loaded with hextone gray inks) for just that 
reason. It was nigh impossible to produce a black and white print from the 
color printer that did not have an obnoxious color cast or look green in 
sunlight and magenta in fluorescent. The hextone gray inks (MIS VM inkset 
from www.inksupply.com ) did the trick for me. I don't know whether you 
would call them "deep, rich" or not, but they have been good enough to 
satisfy judges of several competitions (only locally, so far, but I'm 
branching out).

Stan

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