Digital BW, The Print

Hello Richard,

>Clayton, I do agree with you. The post would have been better 
>(very marginally) without the conjecture. But in my defense, I 
>think the conjecture was pretty well qualified...

Understood.


>My conjecture was based, really, on my experience with the 2200
>printing on Moab Entrada with UC ink and QTR. I really did like 
>the look, but at the same time I wanted some of my prints to have, 
>for lack of a better word, a richness that seemed not attainable 
>on cotton paper with MK. I think that soon I am just going to have 
>to force myself to go through the flushing routine and pop in an MK 
>cartridge.

I hope when you do you will try something besides Entrada.  When I
tested it for the "Great Paper Chase" review one of the things I noted
was it lacked "depth" compared to other papers, in fact, it got a "C"
rating.  Here's a quote from the review:

 "...Entrada looks a bit dull and flat compared to the others.  
 It lacks the "depth" that the better papers have."

I think you'll be pleasantly surprised with what K3 with MK will do on
the better papers.

Speaking of matte paper dmax...

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I think everyone agrees that the K3 printers are an important
milestone in the industry.  We finally have an excellent
out-of-the-box BW solution. We also have long lasting pigments with
good color gamut, and good dmax on glossy papers.   Now that these
milestones have been reached, further advances in these areas will
likely be more incremental.  It is my personal feeling that the next
really big breakthrough will be in matte paper dmax.  I know it's
being worked on.  I can't predict how long it will take, but I do
believe strongly that someday we'll have what we want.  It's just a
matter of time.
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In the meantime we can all have fun trying and learning new things. 
It's amazing how far we've come in the last four years.

Regards,
Clayton


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