Digital BW, The Print

Hello Frank,

Well after another long night of testing, my printer is not at fault -
it was that every quad or tricolor pantone set was a fairly neutral
set of greys, tans, sepais or browns .... 
And the metamerism shifted everything to green or I wound up with 
strong magenta casts in the shadows...

I found, after about 30 tests, that a mod to a duotone blue worked
pretty well ... but still somewhat Green.... 
Thus, I have given up attempting to get good BW prints from the 
standard Epson ink set and have some MIS variable.mix inks on the way.
The 1280 style inks fit the printer, and Paul Roark just happened to
have a set of correcton curves for the MIS/VM and 2000P in his back 
pocket <G>

Thanks For The Reply 

Alex P


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "culturalvisions" 
<frank@c...> wrote:
> I started printing b/w with a 2000P and switched to an 1160 with 
MIS 
> inks.  I had two ways of making prints on the 2000P.  First, use 
black 
> ink only.  This is by far the best system.  No metamerism at all! 
And a 
> nice warm tone.  The prints are a bit chunkier than my 1160, but 
they 
> still look good (without a loupe).
> 
> The other way is a constant battle with metamerism, but very 
beautiful 
> under the right light.  Use the tritone and quadtone settings 
available 
> through photoshop and pick the three or four pantones you want. The 
> possibilites are wonderful and I would switch back to that method 
if it 
> wasn't for the creeping green.
> 
> Let me know if you need a workflow for doing the quadtone settings.
> 
> Frank
> 
> http://www.culturalvisions.com
>