Digital BW, The Print

What you say makes sense. But it leads me to also question the
Nanochrome for color printing since it appears that in color prints
your neutrals would be susceptible to color shifts under changing
lighting conditions. Of course all prints do this to some extent. When
I print color on Entrada Natura and the print emerges from my 2200
under the room's fluorescent light -- I do the PS edit in the dark --
it usually looks slightly yellowish to me; but when I view the print
under natural light, or my Ott-lite, the apparent color cast
disappears. Unlike the metamerism I see in 2200 UC BW prints using the
Epson driver, this change in tone seems like natural phenomena of
lighting rather than a weird byproduct of combining different colored
pigments to achieve a neutral gray.

Chris Hargens




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Shilesh Jani"
<shileshjani@b...> wrote:
>
> Chris,
> 
> NanoChrome on a 2200 does work, and you are right you can print 
> glossy and matte, and NO bronzing. Sounds great doesn't it? But wait 
> a minute: The K and LK of NanoChrome are rather cold in tone, and can 
> be neutralized or taken into the warm spectrum only if you add both 
> LM (or M) AND Y. When you add Y you are in rather sticky situation 
> becuase the print can swing along the magenta-green axis under 
> daylight-flourescent lighting conditions. If you accept slightly 
> green prints under fluro lights, you should be fine.
> 
> Seeing such a high Dmax AND absolutely no bronzing in a print is a 
> joy indeed.
> 
> Shilesh
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Hargens" 
> <chargens@s...> wrote:
> >
> > I'd be interesting in seeing how the Nanochrome inkset would work
> > running QTR on a 2200. Seems to me that the chief advantage of the
> > 2400 -- the ability to print on glossy papers without the usual UC
> > gloss differential/bronzing problems -- would be disappear. Further,
> > with the Nanochromes you would get greater dmax on both matte and
> > glossy papers. 
> > 
> > Chris Hargens
> >  
> > 
> > 
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones"
> > <cj@c...> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello Bruce,
> > > >>In a few days, as soon as my replacement 2400 arrives, I will be
> > > >>loading Nanochrome K (as the black ink), the Epson MK (as the
> > > >>darkest gray), followed by LK, LLK.
> > > 
> > > >- why aren't you using the NanoChromes as a set? 
> > > >What advantage do you see in using the K3s for the color inks? 
> > > 
> > > Maybe it's because the Nanos aren't made for the K3 printers - 
> there
> > > is no LLK.  
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Clayton
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Info on black and white digital printing at    
> > > http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
> > >
> >
>