Digital BW, The Print

I have used the Lyson Quad Black ink set, but I gave up on them.  The metamerism 
bothered me, and it always felt like I was fighting to get good prints from the canned ICC 
profiles.  I've switched to MIS and I'm not looking back.

When I heard about the Daylight Darkroom system, I requested a sample print, and the 
moment I saw it I knew I'd made the right choice.  The print quality is much better than I 
had ever gotten (obviously), but the metamerism is still there.

I'll accept that their new DD system probably makes up for many of the shortcomings of 
the Quad Black and ICC profile system, and I'll even admit that if I went back to them and 
applied what I've learned about printing from using MIS inks, I'd probably get better 
results, but I'm already much happier with MIS inks than I ever was with Lyson, even 
though I've only been using them for a short time.

-Steve

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Carolyn Frayn <carolyn@u...> 
wrote:
> On 2/17/05 10:16 AM, "K.A.H." sent the following verbage:
> > 
> > Hi everyone, I'm new here.  Anyone out there have any experience with
> > the Lyson Daylight Darkroom system?  I've had the chance to play
> > around with it a little, (Epson 2200 w/the DD software), and I'm very
> > impressed. It's truly a very viable, workable solution to producing
> > neutral B&W's.  Anyone else??
> 
> 
> I saw sample prints at the Camera Store I frequent, and thought the print
> quality was fine, Lyson Daylight Darkroom uses the Bowhaus RIP. But I did
> not like the inks... I found them greenish under some light, they
> metamerisized too much for my tastes as I walked to different light sources
> with the samples. 
> 
> Carolyn