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BO and colorlife paper

2004-07-26 by lipshurt2002

hello......Call me weird, but I just dont like fancy fine art papers all that much. I like the 
photograpg look of a lustre surface. I guess it might be because everytime a show 
someone a really nice print on museo, or museum parchment, they say..."wow!...did you 
do this at kinkos?!?!"....( kinkos is a xerox place)... So my question is, being new to black 
only, Does anyone use a lustre paper with BO? I am using the epson ink in my 1280, and it 
seems to look great with epson colorlife and ilford classic pearl. Many say these papers are 
identical. I admit that with ilford smooth pearl, the ink is pretty red in the shadows, but 
not with the others. I used to use lyson quadblacks, and BO is way better in my opinion. 
Shouldnt the lifespan be pretty good with Colorlife? I am resisting the idea of using the 
MIS black because I dont want to deal with clogs. Plus I want to be able to print color 
occasionally. (although I never seem to) .....I'm just a guy starting out, so any info is great. 
I have seached the archives a good bit also. Thanks, Doug M

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