Digital BW, The Print

Sarah,

I¹m also planning on going the K7 route for my R2400  What machine are you
using?  And are you using a CIS setup or refillable carts?

Harry


On 10/17/07 1:16 PM, "Sarah Thompson" <sarah@...> wrote:

>  
> 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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Harry F. Lockwood




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