Digital BW, The Print

Linda,

To answer your questions:

1) I have not found quantities of EPSG paper larger than the 20 
sheet envelope/box. I get mine at Atlex for a much cheaper price 
than at the local stores even factoring in postage. I am using both 
the 8.5x11" and 13x19" sizes.

2) I chose to look for an LCD instead of a CRT because I was sick of 
this giant THING taking up my whole desk. I had been told that the 
old bias toward a CRT for accurate color and tone representation is 
probably not true anymore. And now that I have experienced two flat 
panels side-by-side, boy am I happy. They seemed to calibrate well 
with the Monaco colorimeter. I have only done B&W with the monitors 
so far, but will be printing color tonight, so we shall see, but I 
can't see how there will be any problems. I do notice however that 
there is significant change in color and tone if you move your head 
from side to side and/or up and down. The screen image is easily 
viewable in the 160 degrees field of view quoted for these monitors 
but there is a small sweet spot where the colors and tones are 
maximized. So I have set my desk up so that my head is in the same 
spot when ever working on photography.

3) I am prinitng color and B&W. For the color I am using the premium 
Epson profiles downloaded from their site and they seem to be 
working wonderfully and therefore have not done custom profiling. 
But I am using Epson papers and the K3 inks.

As for personal testing, the more I have fussed in the darkroom and 
now in the digital domain, I really believe the proof is in the 
pudding. So I test until I can't see any differences in my prints 
and then get back to picture making. My goal is to get my system 
down so that the technical aspects begin to fade to the background.

Thanks for asking...