Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones"
<cj@c...> wrote:

Hello Clinton

In a recent post of yours you wrote:

....
> 
> I have a 2200 as well as my trusty 870, and I find that its BO results
> are as good as the 870 (better in some ways because at 2880 the dither
> banding is eliminated and minute details are sharper).  If the Matte
> Black blacks are unsatisfactory, it's because it is a warm color ink,
> not because it's a BO print.  Again, BO blacks are equal to or better
> than what other methods produce, given the same ink.
>.... 

> Regards,
> Clayton
> 
> 
> Info on black and white digital printing at    
> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm


I had a 870, too (and still have a 1160) and for almost a year now a
2100 (=2200?) I use for colour and BO printing at 2880 with OEM inks
(street photography and available light photography being my subject.
That's why I like that "TRI-X feeling" best rendered by BO technique).
By the way "Photokit Sharpener" helps me a
great deal to bring out "minute details sharper" as you put it ...

Questions:

a) BO Printing with the 2100 results in warm prints - in my case on
EAM/EEM. Not unpleasant to my eye. But I think it is a fact that ink
and paper interact. Is there
any ink - paper combo (preferably from the EPSON or HAHNEMUEHLE range)
that
results in more neutral prints???

b) Could you please add your BO findings with the 2100 OEM matte black
inks to your "Analysis of Technical Print Exchange". 

Thanks a lot

Chatzebussi