Digital BW, The Print

Hello Duane,

>I really wonder if we won't need a considerable amount of help 
>from the paper folks to accomplish this as well as the ink people...

Interesting ideas.  I don't know where the final solution lies, maybe
with something entirely new that hasn't been invented yet.  I'm just
happy that things continually get better and I have confidence that
the trend won't stop.

 

>I've been thinking of your exchanges with Tyler as regards your
>perceptions of the colors added to alter ink tone as opposed to 
>BO prints. I know there can be exreme metamerism shown in trying 
>to make neutral tones from color inks and I wonder if your
>impressions might not be due to a more subtle evidencing of that 
>same factor. Maybe you are simply very sensitive visualy to those 
>effects.

I don't think metamerism is really the issue.  And I don't know that
I'm more sensitive to colors than any one else, it's just that we get
used to things.  I suspect that most of the people who don't mind the
mixing of colors have been looking mostly at mixed inks because that's
been the main trend.  But there is a big (to me) difference in a tone,
neutral or otherwise, that results from a single ink's response to a
paper, and one that is made up of several colors in an attempt to
imitate that tone.  I have never found mixed inks to be very
convincing.  And then of course there's the longevity issue.

Sometimes I despair of the struggle, the constant time consuming and
expensive experimenting, the endless search for the holy grail. 
Sometimes I think (for a brief moment) that I should forget about all
this and just go buy a 2400 and make prints and be happy with what it
produces.  But then I look and these sample K3 prints and I can't do
it.  It simply isn't what I'm searching for.

Regards,
Clayton


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