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Re: [Digital BW] Digest Number 1521

2003-05-22 by Anthony Atkielski

Jon writes:

> Ah, I see. I was curious as you are a prodigious
> poster, but I couldn't recall what digital B/W
> printing method you were using.

None, yet.  I shoot both black and white and color, but while I've found
solutions for nice color prints (the 2000P does fairly well on color, but
now I get cheaper and better results by taking the files to a lab with a
Frontier on a CF card), I have no solutions for B&W prints.  Lab prints of
B&W are either horrendously expensive or of very poor quality (i.e., B&W
printed on color paper, often with some sort of color cast), and the 2000P
prints B&W quite poorly also, usually with a color cast and significant
metamerism.

Thus my interest here is in figuring out how I can print B&W as easily as I
print color.  I have no money at the moment, so it is mostly thought
experiments, but once I have some money I've been thinking of getting a
third printer that I can dedicate to black and white, and printing with
that.

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