Digital BW, The Print

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 12:52:47 -0700, Douglas Meeuwsen <lipshurt@...> wrote:
> well, I certainly am no expert on prints, but I have tried many of the
> systems, and have gotten them to work, sometimes that took a long time
> for me, but whatever. I think that Black-only is great for certain
> kinds of gritty looking images. 

Whoa!  With all due respect Douglas, if that's your opinion you
certainly need to work on your BO technique and workflow.  I print
images that would be far from considered "gritty" and they just sing
using my 2200 with Eboni black ink on Photo Rag, William Turner,
Eclipse Satine, or even EEM.

> I also think that if you're gonna go
> that way, you might as well just use the epson stock ink and print on
> colorlife paper. 

Not for me.  Epson pigment black is way too brown and and Epson dye
black too green, plus the ramp of tones with those inks on colorlife
is too steep and abrupt.

> If the image works
> better on rag, then you are probably better off using UT2 or something,
> because if you dont need the Big Contrast,  on fine art papers, the UT2
> is much more professional looking. 

I'd like some clarification on what you exactly mean by that,
"professional looking".  Have you seen a good BO print before on
heavyweight cotton paper?


> BO on rag looks not that good up close. 

Why does it matter what it looks like close-up?  I'm not a scientist
with my prints.  I like to view them and share them not dissect them.


Richard