Digital BW, The Print

and i'm going to feel it even more, tonight, when i "upgrade" from 
the 1280 to R2400! and i may very well end up regretting it because 
i've had really good luck using the "Black Only" BO printing method 
w/ MIS inks and Red River Dourian and Aurora Art Papers.

BO Printing I learned here -  http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm

                 http://www.cjcom.net/articles/digiprn3.htm

and with the help of a really nice guy named Jim Arnold: 
http://www.jimarnold.org/


Even these this "simple" method took me a good week to get right. 

If you want to try BO printing feel free to contact me w/ specific 
questions. I'll do my best to help you.

All you need is Eboni Black Ink w/ a Color Cleaning Cart from MIS.

The Red River Papers are very nice and recommended by Clayton Jones.

Good Luck.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Troy" 
<troy93955@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I am writing today because I am totally confused about printig. I am
> going to start printing in black and white, and after all the 
reading
> i did on the web i am even more confused about what I need to do to
> get good quality prints. This is something I would like to get 
serious
> about but it seems like all the joy is being drained out of it when 
i
> start to try to educate my self about printing.
> I am using a Epson 1280. I use photo shop to edit my images. I am
> thinking about starting to use duotone instead of grey scale
> conversions. My question's are.
> 1. do I need to have a printer icc profile for my printer?
> 2. what is the easyest way to get quality prints?
> 3. I allready have a spyder monitor calibrator is there any thing 
else
> that i need?
> 4. I am just plain fed up and confused with reading and trying to
> understand all of this on my own, can some one please guide me.
> Thank you very much in advanced for your help. Troy
>