Digital BW, The Print

That is disappointing if these are the old inks.  Based on the earlier 
Lyson/Bowhaus press release I had assumed that this was the new inkset 
that promised no metamerism on the Darkroom range gloss and matte 
papers that were to be part of their "B&W Digital Darkroom" solution.

Carl

On Thursday, May 6, 2004, at 09:21  PM, Tyler Boley wrote:

> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Carl Schofield
> <scho@m...> wrote:
>> Following is the text from the latest Lyson news brief.  Might be a
>> good solution for printing on RC papers.
>>
>> Lyson Quad Black
>> Toneable inkset
>> By combining three channels of
>> archival Lyson Quad Black
>> neutral with two channels of Quad
>> Black warm and two further
>> channels of Quad Black cool, Lyson
>> has created a totally new toneable
>> archival Quad Black inkset....
>
> I have to admit this is a bit of a disappointment. I was hoping the
> new set would be a completely reformulated solution. The old quad sets
> were highly metameric, and I had my fill of mixing and matching
> between the neutral, cool, and warm sets to fine tune things years
> ago. In fact, on some papers metamerism was worse then with some color
> inksets.
> I hope to see what user's impressions are, but the hope of a dye set
> on RC paper still seems not quite there. Too bad since reports of the
> new paper are good.
> The old Spectratones had more promise.
> Tyler