Digital BW, The Print

Hi Shilesh,

MIS Archival Color inkset, 1260 Printer, Profiles by CD Tobie, Monitor
profiled with Spydercal.  With Epson Archival Matte Paper and its
profile, and with Torchon, (royal riviera) and its profile,  the color
prints are great, and so are the black and white prints. If you need to
do anything at all with the color tones in black and white prints, it is
to tweak the epson sliders maybe 3-4 points in the opposite direction of
your color cast. Once this is done, the black and whites are very nice
indeed.  This may be harder to do on a 6 color printer, but I think it
could be done. I would still have a dedicated black and white quad or
hex system if you do a LOT of black and white printing. 

Jerry

Hextones are just a tiny bit smoother, (especially noticeable in a wide
blurred area, such as a sun or moon with a soft glow.)  On this type of
image, the 6 color printers do a MUCH better job rendering the glow than
the 4 color printers do. The 4 color printers clip the glow way too
soon, and it doesn't look realistic.

janishilesh wrote:
> 
> 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