Digital BW, The Print

I'm using Eboni black right now, which this set also uses. So it's
hard to imaging that switching would give me significantly greater
d-max. I've done a lot of testing and I think I've really exhausted
the pigment options. I'm really now looking for a multi-grey *dye* ink
set.


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Charles Becker
<gypyjunior@...> wrote:
>
> Go to www.inksupply.com and then B&W printing and the UTBO
(Ultratone Black Only) inks are made for the Epson R1800. Excellent
results, better then other B&W inksets I have tried. They also have
some good "Help Topics" for B&W printing.
>   Best, Charles
>   
> 
> i_3d_c <ichristie@...> wrote:
>           
> My first inkjet printer was the Epson 1270.
> I scanned some of my old 4x5 negs and printed them on Archival Matte
> paper. I fell completely in love with the results, which was a little
> puzzling because I had read that the 1270 wasn't really that great for
> B&W. I thought I'd like to get more serious about this B&W printing
> thing so I bought an Epson r1800 and dedicated greyscale inks. And was
> disappointed. After hours & hours of testing with different papers and
> settings (and QTR) I just couldn't achieve the look I had fallen in
> love with with the 1270. Long story short, pigment inks just can't
> achieve the same d-max as dyes.
> 
> Assuming that I'm not interested in my prints lasting hundreds of
> years -- a couple of decades would be nice -- are there any printers
> or 3rd party inksets that have greyscale dye inks?
> 
> 
> 
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