Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tyler Boley" <tyler@t...> 
wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Antonis"
> <antonisphoto@y...> wrote:
> >...In fact, my own 9500 is loaded with 2 flavors of Piezotones: Sepia
> and 
> > Warmtones with a common Museum Black and cyan-position...
> 
> Sounds like you came to the same conclusion Steve and I did. The
> "good" warm is  somewhere between those two sets.

I finally came up with an ink setup that I really like for my 7500.  
Canned ink color never seemed to be quite right.  So I have a pure
carbon quadtone -- black, dark gray, medium gray and light gray,
plus two single color toners.  One is cold to be able to neutralize the
warm carbon to a neutral, the other is a sepia so I can go all the way
to a full sepia print.  Naturally, I use QuadToneRIP and have three
different profiles with blending between them.  I can pick anywhere
in an entire spectrum from neutral to sepia.

Roy


> 
> > Of course - just remember the much more arcane "secrets" of darkroom
> master
> > printers. They didn't have their hands tied by firmware, drivers and
> whatever Epson 
> > comes up with to protect the market for OEM inks.
> >  Ah... the analogue world of bw printing.....  not. : - )
> 
> Right, those guys built up a great deal of mystique about their
> alchemy. Some of it may even have been valid <G>.
> Tyler