Digital BW, The Print

Now you can 

1)     make both - ink and paper and let the customer know that this
combination works; change any of the inks or change the paper and all bets
are off,

2)     make paper for each set of inks - NOT going to happen

3)   make everyone crazy by claiming that you have tested the archival
quality of ALL of the possible out comes with appropriate environmental, and
"museum" grade testing and let the buyer be . 

 

It possible that Epson has already tried to lock people in to a paper/ink
combo with the Colorbyte IP in the early days and people bitched and moaned
and now they (CB) offer a variety of inks and papers. It is a wide open
market, but also exist in a very thin line. We don't really know what goes
on behind the business deals. As an ink maker or marketing person, How many
papers can you reasonably test for color gamut, and archival quality? May be
it is a good thing we here in the US don't have a good quality Health care
system. We all know that we won't be around to see if the predictions hold
out for the inks and papers we sold as "lasts at least blah blah blah
years".  

 

I have set up my 4800 with PK for a short period of time, and if I run
across more Harmon FB paper I'll run one print just to see, but it is my
understanding that one should ONLY use MK inks. 

 

Eric Neilsen Photography

4101 Commerce Street, Suite 9

Dallas, TX 75226

214-827-8301

http://ericneilsenphotography.com

 

Skype : ejprinter

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Greg
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 10:51 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: New Harman Technologies (Ilford B&W) Matt FB mp -
First Weeks

 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhit
<mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com>
eThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Eric Neilsen" 
<e.neilsen2@...> wrote:
>
> I think that besides looking at just the PK or MK portion of the ink 
sets,
> we need to think about the WHOLE package. 

Eric, 

You bring up a very important point. Not all inksets stick to papers 
the same. Just like not all matte black inks have the same dmax on a 
certain paper. The ink paper relationship may be a complex one at best, 
and with HP and Canon making pigment printers, which inkset do you 
market for? It used to be simple, make the paper work with the Epson 
pigments and you will capture the largest crowd. Now....?

 



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