Digital BW, The Print

>1)   How do the B&W prints from the #59 cartridge compare to other B&W
>prints regarding issues of neutral hues and metamerism?

Compared to black-only prints with pigment ink on matte paper using an
Epson 1160:

- Image tone is best described as "unobtrusive": the prints look like B&W
photographs.

- Metamerism is minimal: there is some shift between tungsten and daylight,
but not enough to be bothersome. Most important, the image tone remains
consistent from shadows to highlights (i.e. there is no _differential_
metamerism).

- Note that the HP Premium Plus paper (I use the Matte surface, which is
actually a semigloss/luster) tends to buckle lot especially in heavy ink
coverage areas. The Ilford Galerie Classic paper, on the other hand (I just
tried the Pearl surface), dries absolutely flat, and BTW provides slightly
more open shadows and even less gloss differential than the HP paper.

-- Nick

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