Digital BW, The Print

sounds great. i hope i recognize it when it arrives.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "babelfish"
<babelfish2@...> wrote:
>
> I know what you mean. I recently ran across some prints that we made 
> with dye inks on H. German etching and photo rag papers that are 
> stunning in comparison to anything we've been able to produce using 
> Epson or Canon pigments. But you have to realize that dyes can be
fickle 
> and they're subject to many perils that pigments are much more
resistant 
> to. It's not reasonable to think that you're trading hundreds of years 
> for decades, because in a bad environmental situation you could lose a 
> dye print in months.
> 
> On the plus side, there are some new formulations coming out of the
labs 
> soon that may change all of this. I know of a few first hand, and I 
> predict that within six months to a year, we'll all be using inks that 
> offer more than the best of both worlds.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "i_3d_c"
> 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?
>