Digital BW, The Print

john kelly wrote:
> What's the logic behind K7 Vs OEM? 
>
> At the end of the day are wonderful results expected
> in exchange for the reported grief and wasted time? 
>
>   
In my case, yes, I've made the best B&W prints with K7 that I've ever 
made. I got close with the OEM inks, but there was always *something* 
not quite as good as I wanted it to be. With K7 and its associated 
colour management flow, reprinting my old images was easy and gave me 
the best prints I'd ever made from them.

So sorry, yes, I think the carts are a bit out of spec physically so the 
chips sometimes don't quite line up properly, which is a pain, but once 
it works, it *really* works. I always had difficulty with colour 
balance, illuminant metamerism basically, when I was using ABW, so I'd 
do a print that looked great, but once it was framed with white mat 
board it looked a bit blue, or green, or something. Just not quite 
right, and however much fiddling about I did I couldn't quite fix it. 
But K7 (I use the split tone version) gave me exactly what I liked 
without any effort at all, no metamerism at all. I've also been 
extremely impressed with the resolution I get with the K7/QTR flow, 
definitely noticeable better than the ABW route. My images are mostly 
either from a Better Light scan back (8000x6000) or a Megavision 
monochrome medium format back (4000x4000), so being able to see that 
resolution in smaller prints (which never quite worked with ABW) is 
pretty awesome in my opinion.

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