Digital BW, The Print

My prints show absolutely NO green, and VM inks with paul's curves do
NOT change with age, at least not in about 9 months now, especially not
with the cold or cool curves. I never noticed any of my piezo inks turn
green on any paper. Brown, yes, not green.

Jerry




Alan Zinn wrote:
> 
> Guys,
> It aint green it's olive and it does change as it ages. An un-mounted
> print-in-hand can look OK but the really anoying thing about the tone
> is what it looks like against white mat board - barf! No color of
> white I have found looks good. Worse, the color temp of the gallery
> light accentuates the ugly differences in the whites.
> 
> AZ
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Jerry Olson
> <jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> > Do most of you who saw all three of paul's images on his website
> think
> > the piezo print is green?  This print almost exactly matches my
> piezo
> > prints on most papers, in daylight. If there is green in it, it
> must be
> > a very small amount, as I see mostly brown. If you are using the
> > uncoated Somerset velvet paper, the images are quite a bit more
> neutral
> > than on most any coated paper. I did see a print from Inkjet mall
> when I
> > first began using piezo. It was not a good print. Very flat, muddy,
> > olive green and very weak black. Not an acceptable print for a
> > photographer, but it had no dots, and that's why I bought into the
> piezo
> > system.  I thought I could find a paper that would be more neutral.
> I
> > could never get rid of the brown tones, and don't like them, so have
> > left piezo printing in favor of the MIS inks and Paul's curves. No
> green
> > or brown prints Here!
> >
> > jerry
> >
> > amadiallo2001@y... wrote:
> > >
> > > I've been using the Piezo inks for less than 2 months, but have
> > > made many prints on Somerset Velvet and tested a lot of paper
> > > samples and not once have I seen anything remotely close to
> > > the tone of Paul's Piezo ink print. For Piezo ink users, paper
> > > choice is the determinant of coolness/warmth of an image. I've
> > > gotten neutral and brown, but never green. You can request a
> > > printed sample image from InkJetMall. I'd trust a hardcopy over a
> > > compressed jpeg anyday.
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