Digital BW, The Print

Carl,

that's quite the dilemma. If you have the small gamuts, and don't mind 
profiling them, that's your best shot. On a 6 ink printer you can throw 
in some quads too. If you profile right and check the spectral makeup
of your scale with a spectro, you can just about eliminate metamerism.

If you already have the Fotonics....   why not give it a try. You may profile
for daylight (or whatever light you choose) and stick with it. Remember,
the Fotonics are more fugitive than the Lysonics. And it will be much
harder to profile and fight metamerism with this combo.

Plan B is the UC or UT with their respective Photo K.
Printing BO from OPM, I got 2.04 with MIS UT PK from an 1160
and 1.80 using the 2200 / UC / PK
Definitely not what Lyson recommends, of course.

I haven't profiled it with the pigment inks, so haven't seen what grays do 
(and any overload  issues). There is a bit of bronzing, which is
absent with dyes.
And the image is not waterproof, it  can be wiped clean if it gets wet !
Even cleaner than it does with dyes. Maybe a light spray can fix it
and fight bronzing at the same time....?  This may undo the nice
surface finish though.

Antonis





--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Schofield" 
<scho@m...> wrote:
> InkJetArt is now selling the Darkroom Range Gloss paper.  I'd love to try this 
paper in 
> my 2200, but what inkset might give decent B&W prints without 
metamerism?  I 
> thought about trying to profile it with the Fotonics and a RIP, using only the 
K, LK, LC, 
> and LM inks (as I've already done with the UC inks and matte papers) to get 
a neutral 
> tone but I'm concerned about metamerism with the Lyson dyes.  Alternatives 
might 
> be some combination of the Quad blacks and Small gamut inks.  Any other 
> suggestions or is this a hopeless case of a great paper but no suitable 
inkset to use it 
> with?
> 
> Carl 
>