Digital BW, The Print

Hello Bill,

Thank you _very _ much for taking the time for this.  I know it was a
lot to ask and time is precious.  

>Right now, I like the K7 inks enough to consider dedicating my 
>7600 to them and purchasing a 7800 when they become available.

That alone says a lot.


>The Bright White dual sided is scary close to the old 
>Oriental Seagull or Kodak Elite papers toned in selenium. 

Ah, so on cold paper they go past black into the cool tints...I wonder
how warm it will go?  The warmest paper I've tested is Wm Turner
(W7-B7 on my paper chart).  I wonder how it would look on that...


>The nice thing about this system is that you can standardize on the 
>inks and experiment to find a paper stock that works best for you.

Yes, it's one of the things I love about BO and it sounds like K7 is
similar in that respect. There's a certain simplicity about it that's
very appealing and much like the darkroom.  Because the ink never
changes you get acutely attuned to all of its nuances on various
papers.


>>differences on various papers
>the overall density and contrast of the test 
>prints were very well matched.

That's good.


>...K3/ABW and K7/QTR...like the results both ways. 

So they seem to both be in the same ball park at least...



>ABW is--in my opinion--a signficant development. Its the first 
>OEM grayscale solution that I could use and be happy with. 

Agreed, same here.



>excellent grayscale and color prints from the same machine
>without the expense of a third-party RIP. Very nice. 

Yes!


>I could easily envision a project where using ABW would be 
>appropriate. Given a choice, however, I prefer the prints 
I'm making with K7.  

Understood.


>happy to produce a set of test prints with K7

I'm very interested and would be happy to reimburse the expenses.  I
will follow up via email. 


This is very helpful, I appreciate it very much.  And I'm sure that
lots of other readers are interested and appreciate it as well. 
Thanks again.

Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm