Digital BW, The Print

Dave,

 

(Not sure if I'm the one you were asking, but I'll share my opinion, for
what it's worth.)

 

I've never been thrilled with the tone of carbon or the roughness and
frequent banding of black only prints.   Eboni makes a nice, relatively
neutral deep black, but in the midtones it is not neutral.  The other MIS
carbon inks can make a good semi-sepia on some papers, but I like this
mostly for old photo reproductions.  For a better warm tone, I prefer a bit
more red in the mix and a bit less yellow (natural carbon tone).  The Epson
"carbons" (actually 50% carbons) are too greenish for me.  On the other
hand, the carbon images are the most lightfast.  So, I do factor that into
my preferences, which are leaning to a slightly warm image these days.  If
we could make a carbon only print that was neutral on a paper I liked, I'd
be very happy.

 

With today's technology, I see the K, PK, LK and LLK mostly as the core of
the image, to be altered just a bit by LC and LM (or the like) to get to the
tones I'm interested in. 

 

Paul

www.PaulRoark.com <http://www.paulroark.com/>  

 

 

  _____  

From: David Keenan

.

> The Black setting on the 4800 and 3800 is using black plus LK and LLK,

>Let's call it "B3".

Paul --

What is your opinion of B3 vs BO prints?

Dave.



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]