Digital BW, The Print

Gosh Joel, a million thanks.  What wonderful
information.  I will study your comments and try to
figure out where to go.  Cost IS a factor, so the
ricey part concerns me.

Thank you sooooo much,

mitch
--- Joel Pickford <badbluesman@...> wrote:

> Hi Mitch,
> 
> I decided to go digital with my B&W exhibition work
> way back in 2001.  Since then, I have tried almost
> every software/ink solution out there, ranging from
> IRIS/Omnitone ink printing, several generations of
> Cone products, various RIP and profiling solutions
> for
> Ultrachrome inks, Media Street G-Quad inks, Lyson's
> Daylight Darkroom and more.
> 
> Of all these solutions, what I like the best, so
> far,
> is the Cone K7 inkset (K6 for your 7000 printer)with
> the Studio Print 12 RIP program.  Although it is a
> bit
> pricy, the Studio Print RIP will ultimately make
> your
> life alot easier and save wasted ink and paper. 
> Used
> in conjunction with a spectrometer such as the
> Gretag
> Eye One Photo, Studio Print is brilliantly simple
> and
> elegant to operate.  It allows you to set your inks
> up
> almost anyway you like and then create an absolutely
> perfect grayscale by linearizing and ink limiting
> your
> paper of choice.  It is incredibly easy to do and
> the
> results are spectacular.  It is the closest thing to
> a
> digital Zone System I have seen.
> 
> Studio Print also makes it lots easier to set up
> jobs,
> drag and drop multiple print layouts, and resize
> images on the fly.  In addition, you create "print
> environments" which save all of your printer and ink
> settings, as well as your B&W linearizations or
> color
> profiles.  You simply create different print
> environments for different papers, printers, etc.
> that
> you use and then just toggle between them from a
> pull-down menu.
> 
> The only drawback is that Studio print is a Windows
> only program.  However, it runs fine on Macs using a
> Windows emulator such as Parallels Desktop.  Studio
> Print does not use much memory or processor power,
> so
> running it on a WIN emulator is no problem.
> 
> Currently, Cone offers a so-called "neutral" K6/K7
> ink
> set and a Sepia set.  Everyone is waiting for a new
> Selenium set in the pipeline that will work on both
> glossy or matte papers.  To my eye, selenium is much
> closer to neutral (a highly subjective concept).  I
> am
> using the Sepia K7 set and I love it.  It is
> somewhat
> less warm and less yellow than the previous Cone
> Carbon Sepia ink set.  The difference between my new
> prints with K7 and my old K4 prints is surprising; I
> am seeing tonal passages I never knew were there.
> 
> Good luck!
> BBM
> 
> 
>  
>
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