Digital BW, The Print

From experience, I can support the recommendation of R800 for color and
Epson C86 for b/w.

Laurence, lately I've been printing Ilford Gallerie Smooth Pearl on the
C86 with MIS UT EZW (Eboni Black and warm inks). It's excellent, but if
you favour a more neutral print, definitely go with UT EZN (neutral inks).
I can't compare Eboni Black with Photo Black on this paper, but I have no
complaints at all using the Eboni Black, so my curiosity about the
difference has died out. It's beautiful.

Daniel Ridings
http://www.dlridings.com/paw2004

On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Paul Roark wrote:

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> 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.
>
> -----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