Digital BW, The Print

Hi Drime;

The R800 is a very good choice for a first printer, for the reasons 
you stated and also because it will do glossy prints with out some 
of the surface reflectance problems that pigments usually produce on 
gloss and semi-gloss papers. It does that with the gloss optimizer 
(which we have reduced to 'glop') which fills in gaps in the gloss 
and evens out the reflectance. MIS does indees produce an R800 
equivalent set of pigments, but their glop did not produced quite as 
high a gloss as the Epson, so they have temporarily pulled the 
entire set until they can formulate a good replacement. It should be 
avilable again before too long.

Steve Karafyllakis

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Kelsang Drime" 
<kdrime@h...> wrote:
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Thank you for your patience as I'm sure this has been asked 
before. I
> searched the archives and didn't find a suitable reply. So here 
goes.
> 
> I have returned to photoghraphy after a 25 year hiatus. Things have
> changed! I have a nikon D70 and want to relearn B&W and therefore 
need
> a printer. The Epson R800 looks good to me as it will make archival
> quality prints and is not too costly. Would like to use a MIS
> continuous flow system to keep costs down. Their site says "under
> construction" when I did a search for R800. Dunno what that means.
> 
> Am I on the right track? 
> 
> Thanks - just discovered this forum today.
> 
> Drime