Digital BW, The Print

Peter,
 I can tell you that my BW prints from the best online processor show
metamerism(probably due to a subtle color cast) as I have described.
While they are still better than all inkjets I have seen other than
the HP 7960, they are not like darkroom prints on BW paper.
Furthermore, I emailed online  of them before sending prints and they
all said that "because they printed on paper designed for color
prints, there could be color casts etc ".
If what you say is true, and prints of this type are neutral, then why
would anyone want to use an inkjet in the first place ? It would 
easier and cheaper to go the online print route.
My feeling, is that what we can't get is the look of tradional
darkroom prints on the best papers, and that is why people on this
forum keep experimenting. 

              Good Luck,
                       Stuart
--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Nelson"
<pnweb@s...> wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "sl91911" 
> <SL91911@Y...> wrote:
> > Peter,
> >  What type of equipment does your pro lab use ? The Fuji Frontier
> > printers give, in my experience, BW which is neutral under ambient
> > daylight and moving toward brownish under tungsten and then 
> flourescent.
> 
> Do you find that to be true with ordinary BW photographic prints?   
> I've never noticed BW prints on actual photo paper to exhibit 
> metamerism.
> 
> I'm not sure what brand my local lab uses except that it's made by a 
> German company and it prints digital onto photographic paper.   I'll 
> ask them next time I go there.