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lyson darkroom series demo at Calumet photo

2005-05-06 by Douglas meeuwsen

Hello I was just calumet photo near san diego, and they were have a 
special day where all the reps from different companies were answering 
questions etc.
They had a lady from lyson showing the new darkroom series. I started 
talking to her about the fact that I gave up on lyson and switched to 
MIS/Roark. I told her it was because the prints either came out green, 
or turned green, or turned greener. She did have some real nice looking 
prints. The Darkroom gloss was the most impressive with a carbon 
colored print. I asked to see a neutral print and she showed me a green 
one. I said wow that is green. She said that was someone's idea of 
neutral, and I had to accept that. Then she showed me another print 
that was on darkroom satin. Wow, it was nice too and perfectly neutral 
to me. She said that was the beauty of the system, being able to define 
what you think neutral is. The surface of the satin paper was very 
subtle, as is the glossy...Only slightly glossy. Both were very 
elegant. She was very nice and gave me the neutral satin print to take 
home, and set in my window to see if it fades. When I walked out of the 
store, guess what happened......
Green satin print. Green green.I just walked around with that print and 
one of my UT2/glop/epson semi-matte prints, and the Ut2 does not change 
color like the lyson print does when going from room to room 
etc.......I am pretty sure the lyson is still dye ink.
for what it's worth....Doug m

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