Digital BW, The Print

Well that certainly is the first time I've heard of HP black inks
being warm on anything! If that's so I'm all for it and want to try it
out even more.

Mixing color inks in dots on the paper, where different amounts of
them are appearing in differnt places across the file, is NOT the same
as printing out of one consistent hue ink formulation and they would
not fade shift at the same rate in the same zones of the print becaue
the color inks would be spread out differently for different tonal
values. That's common sense. Trying to say that is just trying to
confuse people. I realize you are trying everything you can think of
ways to discredit the whole notion of people using ANY kind of
monochrome inkset because you are selling a ColorVision rgb workflow
for everything. It is kind of sad because I like Print Fix Pro for
color work and using their spectro for measuring my densities for
Studio Print and Cones inks.

If using color inks and monochrome inks WERE the same thing there
wouldn't be thousands of us all over the world who are not using K3
for monochrome work and we would all be idiots for investing in this
kind of technique.  Calling us all "purists" or old fashoned is not
going to make anyone buy into that rgb story anymore because it is
completely false. But this is a tired old arguement that most of us
have long ago forgotten about. In the past you also said there is no
advantage to us using a great rip like Studio Print or Bauhaus with
monochrome pigments over K3 and Print Fix Pro.., which is also so
totally bizarre as be genuinely laughable. There is a real advantage
to working with a grayscale workflow and a good rip, such as
controling ink limits very accurately per channel, much better control
over dmax levels and ultra subtlety in the high values that your over
inking RGB icc profiles will not even come remotely close to in the
most ideal of situations. So I have to take what you say about HP Z
inks and their workflow with the same grain of salt, a biased souce
considering what you have said in the past, and one trying to
discredit any grayscale work environment in favor of a very inferior
RGB technique. By the way, I'm not a salesman. I'm a large format
black and white photographer since 1974.

John