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Re: [Digital BW] Re: i9900 and Black and White

2005-08-14 by Adam Maas

Tyler Boley wrote:

> The i9900 driver is very well behaved in it's non color managed state.
> This makes it much easier to get decent B&W results with very good
> profiles, compared to Epsons.
> I have profiled 2 i9900s for professional photographers, and they are
> quite happy even for B&W portfolio prints.
> They are not what I would prefer, for example from a dedicated ink
> set, but for color ink prints they far exceeded any Epson (baring
> brand new K3 models) RGB driver mono prints.
> Select a paper or two and get good custom profiles.
> Someone suggested the Lyson inks, I would definitely not recomend them
> unless the Lyson version far outperforms the Epson version.
> Tyler
>

Tyler,

I suggested the Lyson for the i9100, not the i9900. We just happened to 
have two seperate threads about Canon's pop up at the same time. Lyson 
don't even do a 9900 QuadBlack inkset according to their website.

-Adam

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