Digital BW, The Print

I also got lucky and got a C86 which does good BO. So good that I still 
haven't got around to buying the quadtone set (Although I should soon, 
I'm low on ink anyways).

But BO on the C series really is a crapshoot, some unts do it well, 
others don't. Quadtone isn't a crapshoot though.

-Adam



Philip Schwartz wrote:
> 
> 
> Like a lot of folks, I started years ago printing BO. Inspired by
> Clayton's prints, I made some BO prints of recent images on my C86
> with MIS UT-FSN. The 5x7 and 6x8 images on matte paper were awfully
> nice and matched my quadtone prints in tonality, with a slight
> graininess perceptable at close viewing distances. I still like my
> quad- and hextone prints better, but the BO prints are respectable.
> BO printing can definitely work well with some image content.
> That said, I agree with Paul: if you aren't going to print BO, don't
> worry about it :-)
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
> <mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com>, "Paul Roark"
> <paul.roark@...> wrote:
>  >
>  > Don't worry about the bad BO results. That's typical for the
> inexpensive
>  > printers. It'll probably be fine with all the gray inks installed.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > Paul
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> <http://www.paulroark.com/>>
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> <mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of
>  > marcinemem
>  > Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 5:42 AM
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>  > Subject: [Digital BW] C88 - dissapointment at the beginning - is it
> normal?
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > Hello Everybody!
>  >
>  > I have just received my Epson C88+ printer (D88+ in Europe). Because I
>  > am still waiting for package from MIS (with UT-EZ inkset) I tested BO
>  > printing with Epson black ink and Epson Photo Semigloss paper. What a
>  > dissapointment! Even if blacks don't look as bad as I expected all the
>  > rest is a way below my expectations. Very visible banding, greys don't
>  > look I would like them to look like... I used picture in greyscale, 360
>  > dpi but format was very small - 8x4 (15x10cm). OK, that was my really
>  > really first attempt to BO printing - ink is not right, same paper
>  > but... should the result look like that? I also tried full color
>  > picture and result, maybe except dark shadows and blacks in general, is
>  > quite right.
>  >
>  > Marcin
>  >