Digital BW, The Print

Thanks- that's good info: the guys at Calumet here were touting the 
2200 as good BW with UltraChrome.  I'm going to study the MIS 
website: it sounds like I should get with a black/3 grey or black/5 
gray setup.  Is there a 13" wide model that you would recommend?  
There may still be new $200 2000P's around but I'd be willing to 
spend more if it makes a difference.  It sounds like the 2000P MIS 
setup might not be out for a while.  Thanks- kip. 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Nelson" 
<pnweb@s...> wrote:
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "kipduff"
> <kipduff@e...> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I've been doing some digital stuff on my 980 and 2000P, but I'm 
> > mostly a BW photographer and I have 25 years of film to work 
with 
> > (alot of my work was 8" x 10" contact printing- it's tuff to 
> > approach that kind of tonal quality).  Trying to print BW on the 
> > 2000P is sad- I believe the 2200 is possibly a good choice 
because 
> > of the grey ink cartidge.  
> 
> It does NOT have a gray cartridge.  It has a "light black" 
cartridge
> which turns out to be a sort of sepia color.
> 
> The 2200 out of the box is incapable of making a decent black and
> white print.  It suffers from a problem called metamerism, which 
means
> that the color cast of it's "gray" values shift de[pending on the
> light source - for instance they same image might look pinkish 
under
> "daylight" fluorescent light and greenish under sunlight.
> 
> There are various solutions people use to get around this - read 
the
> archives in this group to get a flavor of them.  
> 
> > Thanks alot, Kip (714 337-0961, SoCal area).
> 
> You're new at this internet stuff, aren't you?   You really 
shouldn't
> give out your phone number on a public forum like thius.