Digital BW, The Print

So we come and go,come and go...
Bought a new 1160 to dedicate to BW. Still playing around with it's color inks,until new FS inks come out,so I decided to test a Selenium tone quadtone curve (the ones you apply in duotones) I got somewhere a while ago...So you go from color to grayscale,then to duotone,apply the quad and go back to color. I printed the image in EAM and...bingo! Neutral,no metamerism under sunlight or fluorescent. So I printed the same image with MIS-FS in a 980 on the same EAM,and put them side by side. You just can´t tell them apart. Shadows,midtones...maybe FS was a little smoother in the highlights,but very little,you really need to be looking from an inch away to see it.
For the sake of fairness,when I tried it on Ilford Smooth Pearl,my favorite,it has a lot o metamerism,toward a horrible green.
But on EAM,that´s it.Beautiful. No idea how it will work with other printer/inks/paper combos,but if someone would like to give it a try,email me and I'll send the .ado file. And please share results. I got curious about it. For those who are about matte papers only,looks serious.


André Vallejo
http://andrevallejo.net


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