Digital BW, The Print

Barrett,

No, you're not alone.  The B+W print you are talking about was done by Rodney 
King.  I got one to take home.  It turns green in daylight.  The 4000 will 
need a RIP.

Helene

> As people were being shooed out of PhotoPlus Expo yesterday 
> evening, I wandered into Epson's exhibition booth, where a 
> number of prominent photographers' work - printed on the new 
> Epson 4000 - were on display. Only one photographer of the 
> bunch had any b/w work - three prints, in fact, which ranged from 
> very nice to mediocre to awful (IMO). 
> 
> One, a portrait, was actually quite lovely and, unlike the other two, 
> pretty much artifact-free; another, a landscape, had a rather milky 
> contrast range, but, much worse, on only slightly closer 
> inspection I could see obvious posterization in the clouds. And 
> no, I doubt this was a sought-after "effect". The third print, of a 
> man in mid-leap between two hay bales, was actually quite 
> nice...until I noticed a magenta shift along the horizon line. 
> Another photographer who was looking on was actually a bit 
> startled when I pointed this out.
> 
> So...maybe this answers the question about there still being a 
> need for a RIP with the 4000...at least for anal-retentives like me. 
> But I'm not alone here, right?
> 
> I said, *right*? ;-)



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