Digital BW, The Print

Hello Jen,

I don't think you will have much success using glossy paper with 
those MIS or any other BW inkset, because the glossy surface seems to 
prevent all the ink from going into the paper itself, leaving some 
imbedded in or on the top glossy surface, and when held so the light 
hits it from a side angle; looks more like a silver print than an 
inkjet print. You can get deep blacks if you set your black point in 
the image to 0 and your white point to about 250 so the specular 
lights will be the brightest points in the image. One of the beauties 
of matte paper is that you can hold it at any angle to the light and 
see all the depths of the image without much regard to the light 
source. Work with your image till it looks just right to you and then 
apply the FSN62 curve George Woolf supplys to the MIS website in the 
workflow page.

Your friend in photography,

Johnny Eades



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "radonprojects" 
<radonprojects@y...> wrote:
> Hi!  I just set up a MIS inkset for a 1280.  I've had great sucess 
> with the color set i have used on another 1280, and thought that 
> the B&W set would be equally as nice, but so far i am getting 
> bronzing in the blacks on Epson premium glossy.  I'll admit, i 
> have just started doing the researching to find out how to 
> properly set up printing, but the main reason i wanted to set up 
> this machine was i thought i could get deep blacks on glossy 
> paper like the 1280 color (i have a 2200 for matte stuff already).
> 
> I'm sure somewhere in the past there are posts here..i also read 
> the info on MIS's website from Paul Roark but they say they are 
> for Matte Papers, so i guess i'm asking for any advice or maybe 
> just some points in the right direction.
> 
> the ink is FSN-HEX-E, which is correct i believe.
> 
> any advice is greatly appriciated!!!!
> 
> jen