Digital BW, The Print

Douglas meeuwsen wrote:

> 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
>
The Lysons are dye inks. But the metamerism you are seeing isn't due to 
the dye inks. It's due, I think, to Lyson using a mixture of color inks 
to make gray, instead of using a gray ink. It's not at all the same 
thing. Using color inks leads to some apparently serious metamerism.

It's a shame really. The Dmax performance of the Lyson dyes is 
outstanding. The Darkroom line of papers is also outstanding and it 
really only works well with dye inks. Now if they could only fix their 
metamerism problem....
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Bruce Watson