Digital BW, The Print

Chris: I have a 1280 and have done hextone prints with VM (loved them)
as well as FSN (loved them as well) and now have UT inks to refill my
CFS bottles when they run low. I do BO with all of them as well (loved
them too). 

I did print four identical prints by both hextone and BO. I gave the
four sets of two prints to an instructor who is a big time photo
exhibit curator and asked him to tell me which print he liked best of
each of the four pairs. He picked the Black Only print all four times.
He's a master wet darkroom printer but not that knowledgable in
digital printing. He just knows which he likes best. And in those
particular prints, he picked the BO as being the better of the two. 

I continue to believe BO is a viable option to quad or hex in some
images. Neither is "best" they're just slightly different. 

Bob Michaels

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Hargens"
<chargens@s...> wrote:
> I'm curious. Have you seen any prints from a 1280 using the UT inkset 
> and Roark curves? In your "Analysis of the Technical Print Exchange" 
> you examine the UT inkset using Roark curves on the 1160 and 2100 but 
> not on the 1280. Any impressions about the 1280?
> 
> Chris Hargens