Digital BW, The Print

Just a quick update on the Indelible ink set.  Robert Rex stopped back by my
place today to show me actual samples of prints made with this ink set on
Museo.  These comments are based on seeing prints produced by
others...without proper controls produced with competitive products...so its
a little hard to say anything definitive...but I'll report what I saw.

I used the "eyeball densitometer" to compare blacks between 1270 dye based
ink, Color Piezo, PiezoBW and the Indelible Black.  To my eye the Indelible
black on Museo was weaker than the 1270 black on Museo and stronger than
either the color piezo or piezoBW black on Museo.  It seemed to be similar
in dmax to piezoBW black on Hahnemuhle papers (photo rag or german etching).

Several gray wedges (several different profiles by several different people)
that I say were not neutral (tended towards green)...but as those of you
know that try to use color inks to produce BW prints...getting neutral
results takes a lot of work.

By far the most striking characteristic of this ink set is not the black,
but rather the rest of the colors.  They have guts unlike anything else I've
ever seen come out of an ink jet printer.  The yellow looks like cadmium
yellow straight out of an artist's paint tube...wow.  The red's and oranges
are equally impressive.  Saw a metallic gold that would make a jeweler
drool!  My guess is that properly profiled...these inks would produce
stunning color images...I don't know about BW images...will take some
experimentation.  Apparently they have plans for a quad product...but who
knows when.

I have also heard some amazing claims about longevity...but I haven't seen
fades.  These claims are consistent with what I understand about the
technology, but until they publish their results on a web site its rather
difficult to verify.

That's it for now...hopefully I get a chance to play with the ink in the
next several weeks.

Robert
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Robert Morrison
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4131 Bledsoe Ave.
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