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Re: [Digital BW] I think I want to go back to dye ink.

2007-10-25 by john dean

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?


Yes, Lyson has specialized in this. They have been making an
"archival" :-), neutral quad set and a tonable quad set called Small
Gamut monochrome, for several years. And, by the way, they stink. The
metamerism in incandescent light makes both of them unusable in my
opinion and I spent a lot of money on this junk. And if you put them
in an Epson printer and try to go back to pigments you'll most likely
loose that printer to disasterous clogging.

john

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