Digital BW, The Print

Paul is "the man" when it comes to great curves and inksets.  I 
gave up on the 2000P with Epson ink for b/w.  Now I am 
wrestling with it for good color.

As Mark Tucker said, "If you can't get a good tone in your print, 
who cares how many years it lasts".

Frank

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "a_pettit_jr" 
<a_pettit_jr@y...> wrote:
> 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
> >