Digital BW, The Print

Adding further to this discussion: I have tried to come up with a 
solution that (for me) gives the most flexibility on a day-to-day 
basis. I use a 1270 printer, and have used OEM dyes, Media Street 
Plug-N-Play on a CIS, and MIS VM-HEX also on a CIS. My (current, but 
it may change) choice is the P&P dyes. I can produce (to my eyes) 
neutral prints with no obvious color cross-overs, but only provided 
the image has a lot of detailed information and very little graded 
grays. I have created curves adjustment layers to accomplish this. 
Those in Scott Hendershot's Print Exhange will see an image printed 
with these inks. All bets are off if the image contains gradients 
(large expanse of skies for instance). The solution to this problem, 
I have found is to bias my print a particular tone (cool or warm, but 
not neutral) using duotones. The minor residual color crossovers, it 
seems are overwhelmed by the warm bias I use. Using profiles may 
obviate the need to do this, but I have not tried it.

So, with my P&P set-up I can print color on all papers (including 
fine-art, and glossy), I can print neutral b/w if there is alot of 
detail, and warm duotones, also on all papers. Other than the Epson 
papers, which are excellent, I have used Torchon, and other 
Hehhemuelle (spelling?) papers with great results. A surprising paper 
has been the Epson Watercolor Bright White - it is stunning with dye 
inks, using the MHW setting. The only issue for me is that I have no 
idea how long the images will last - but then if an image fades, I 
can just print it again (I don't sell images, I just give them away.

These are my experiences, and no doubt will be different from other 
people's - there are more revelations ahead!

Shilesh

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "mkravit" <mkravit@k...> 
wrote:
> Julian,
> 
> Last night I tried it with H. Photo Rag 308. Looked great!
> 
> I have not tried any other papers, but I will this weekend.
> 
> Mike