Digital BW, The Print

Thanks so much for this input.

What is Black only, if I might ask? Sorry for the ignorance.

Ellie

On 3 Mar 2004 at 17:57, flyfishingusa2002 wrote (snipped for brevity) about:
Re: [Digital BW] DMAX on 7600 with 

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From:           	"flyfishingusa2002" <tflyfish@...>
Date sent:      	Wed, 03 Mar 2004 17:57:23 -0000
Subject:        	Re: [Digital BW] DMAX on 7600 with ImagePrint
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> Ellie,
> I have been in the process over the last few weeks of evaluating the 
> various options available for printing B/W on a 2200. I have just 
> checked the Colorbyte web site and there is no "grey" profile 
> available for the Lyson inks. So I am not surprised that you are 
> dissapointed. The way these prints, I assume, were profiled was to 
> use the RGB profile that is available. On Imageprint this gives you 
> access to the "Black Point" slider which can be used to "open up" the 
> shadows. Maybe if this was reduced you might well get the denser 
> shadows that you require. I personally would try to replace the mk 
> ink with MIS Eboini. It gives a great DMax and seems to be pretty 
> compatible with other pigment inks.
> I have not had a great deal of success with IP and B/W using RGB 
> profiles. I guess that's why they went to the effort of producing B/W 
> profiles. If you were to try Ultrachromes on the paper of your choice 
> I,m sure you would be very happy.
> Currently my prefered B/W is the "Black Only" approach. Lovely blacks 
> and good tone.
> I personally have more or less given up on the IP demo and my old Jon 
> Cone plugin for this simple approach.

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Ellie Kennard
Innovative Imaging Studio
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Contributor to Photoshop Restoration and Retouching, 2nd edition by Katrin 
Eismann