Digital BW, The Print

Perhaps Jerry could start one of his famous window test once he receiveds the black dye?

Mike
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jeff Magidson 
  To: digital bw group 
  Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 8:26 PM
  Subject: [Digital BW] MIS Inkset W/ Epson Black



  Hey Everyone;

  Following the thread about substituting the MIS VM black with the Epson
  OEM black I decided to give it a try.

  I'm printing on a 1280 and I ran a few prints on LPM & EAM. Comparing
  the same exact file printed with the full MIS VM inkset.

  The blacks on prints with the Epson OEM black ink are MUCH better and
  true. The blacks with the pigment inks have always looked a bit
  transparent to me. 

  About print viewing lighting:

  One thing I have noticed since I started making prints with pigment
  inks. They tend to look better under diffused lighting <indirect window
  light>  than under  Spot / track lights or a desk lamp. To me, this is
  the exact opposite of every other type of photographic prints I have
  ever made < b&w silver prints, C-prints, Ciba prints>.  Traditional
  photographic prints always look more brilliant under gallery type spot
  lighting. I think the weakness / transparency of the blacks in the
  pigment prints is the culprit. Using the Epson OEM black seems to solve
  this problem... but as debated on here... how stable is that black ink?

  -Jeff

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