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Re: [Digital BW] Lyson Daylight Darkroom-Help!

2006-08-30 by john dean

Walt is correct. An involvement with Lyson is a long lonely
unsatisfying trip to nowhere. There are too many good solutions
available to use now. Lyson is in the past, and a distant one at that.

John



 BW] Lyson Daylight Darkroom-Help!
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> >I've been trying to get this to work and haven't gotten any help from
> >Lyson...too busy with a corporate merger to bother with customers,
> >perhaps?  This has been going on for nearly 3 months as I gave up and
> >waited for them to respond for too long, but that guy got fired....
> >
> >Anyone have any experience with it?
> >
> >I'm using an Epson 2000P, two of them in fact as I want to dedicate
> >one to black and white only and improve on BO with Epson inks if
> >possible (right now I doubt it...), and have had the same problem with
> >both.  Both work beautifully with Epson inks...so it's not the
> >printer, heads, or the like.  Also get perfect nozzle checks, target
> >prints, etc.
> >
> >Here's the issue.  I get a strong blue cast when printing.  If I
> >reduce the end point for the blue ink, the color cast is reduced. 
> >Turn it off and I get a very poor warm print, blue is, of course,
> >gone.  Reduce it to a low level, just a bit of blue.
> >
> >When I use the profiles supplied the problem is the same.  When I
> >built my own profile for Museo Silver Rag, same problem, especially in
> >the light shadows.
> >
> >It appears to me that there is a blue ink in the third position in my
> >cartridges where there should be a very lt. grey, which appears to be
> >in the 5th position.  Is this possible?  Studying the graphs of ink
> >outputs in Profile Creator, it appears that the third ink should be
> >putting down a nice lt grey, added to with the second and finished
> >with the pure black.  But there's blue instead.
> >
> >Anyone have any information on this kind of problem?  My guess is
> >defective color cartridges but I don't know.
> >
> >Dave
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