Digital BW, The Print

Jerry,

I have seen numerous posts from you on well profiled achival colored 
inks that produce good b/w prints (as good as hextones?). Can you 
provide specifics, i.e., ink-set, and profiling method. Thank you.

Shilesh

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Jerry Olson 
<jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> Use a third party ink such as Generations or MIS's Archival inksets 
with
> the 1280/70. Better prints in color than the 2000P? Yes. No grain
> pattern at all. MUCH faster printer. With a correct PROFILE for your
> printer, you can produce quite nice black and white and sepia prints
> from this printer. When you have your profile made, tell whoever 
makes
> it to tweak it for maximum black and white quality, as you'll be 
using
> it for this purpose on occasion.
> 
> Jerry
> 
> jennahy2 wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm an amatuer photographer with professional aspirations who
> > received an Epson 2000P for Christmas.
> > 
> > After comparing my b&w test prints to my conventional darkroom 
prints
> > and researching the 2000P on the Web, I'm wondering whether I 
should
> > trade it in for the 1270 or 1280.  I'm focusing on b&w 
photography,
> > however I'd also like to print color photos on the same printer so
> > quad ink systems like the piezography system are not a real 
option.
> > 
> > Will I have better b&w results with the 1270 or 1280? Will the
> > resulting prints still be archival quality albeit not as long-
lasting
> > as the 2000P prints?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for your recommendations.
> > 
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