Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, hogarth@s... wrote:
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> 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.

That's been the word all along. Few people now hearing about this
"new" darkroom series realize that it's the same darn ink I and many
tried years ago before there was even a Piezography product. We all
gave up on it back then because of metamerism despite great Wilhelm
ratings.
It's not at all the same 
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> 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...

It's a shame this stuff wasn't reformulated from the ground up years
ago, we could use this alternative to the art papers and pigment.
They've updated Fotonics, developed Cave Paints, but keep pushing this
stuff. Their only market will be the naive.

Tyler