Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Mark McCombs"
<lockwood_mccombs@h...> wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> After lurking for some time I decided to try BO printing with an Epson
> c84 and the MIS Eboni.  However, before doing this, I printed a test
> image using the standard Epson inks, both using all inks, and then
> just BO but with the Epson ink.  Then after swapping the black cart
> with the Eboni, I printed the same image, BO.
> 
> I like the full ink Epson image the best.  It's much smoother and dark
> shadows have more detail than the other two.  Dmax seems the same
> between all of them.  It's neutral, so no worries there.  I know, it's
> not archival. 
> 
> Oh yeah, the paper I used is just the Epson Heavyweight Matte, as
> that's all I have right now.  But it's an apples to apples comparison,
> and I'm a little disappointed in the Eboni.
> 
> This was a surprise to me.  Should I go with the full MIS ink b/w
> inkset?
> 
> (side note:  I've always used Quark to print with.  Worked fine on my
> old Epson 780, but with the C84 all images have a course halftone
> screen applied to them.  Printing from PS works fine, but I like to
> print from Quark as I can put text photo descriptions (time,place,
> etc.) under the photo, and still have crisp text.  PS rasterizes the
> text, at least PS 7.0 does.  Any ideas here?)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark


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