Digital BW, The Print

Laurence,

You might consider keeping the R800 for color and spending the $70 it takes
to get an Epson C86.  See http://home1.gte.net/res09aij/C86-EZ-UT-Readme.htm
for a full description of the system.

Outstanding 8x10 B&W does not take a medium format camera.  Good 35 or
probably even the good digitals can to it now.

I don't use the term giclée.  Not only does it have a slang meaning that is
not appropriate, but the old giclée prints were dye prints that faded
quickly and gave the class a bad reputation.  The carbon pigment prints
we're now doing are closer to silver longevity than to the giclée longevity.

Happy New Year.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com 


-----Original Message-----
From: lschwarz672000 [mailto:laurenceschwarz@...] 
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 11:20 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Shooting for the stars




A very Happy New Year to all,

I have been trying with great fervor to obtain a level of B&W inkjet 
printing that has been eluding me for quite some time now.  I've 
been using the Fred Miranda BW Workflow Pro for my Color to B&W 
conversion in Photoshop CS, and I have an Epson R800.  I prefer 
Ilford Galerie Smooth Pearl, and also use the Epson Enhanced Matte, 
and Premium Glossy papers.  An example of the kind of perfection 
that I'm looking for is at http://www.alennox.net.  This is the 
artist Annie Lennox's website.  She's also a photographer, and there 
is a killer B&W photograph of her in the Gallery on this website.  I 
do have a sneaking suspicion, that this level of B&W is a medium 
format film thing, and only in my dreams will I achieve this level 
of giclée type printing.

If anyone has any suggestions/recommendations on how to achieve this 
with Photoshop CS and my R800, I would be eternally grateful.

Thanks,

Laurence M. Schwarz








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