Digital BW, The Print

Don-

I just tried a Lyson Quad neutral cart. I found the result to be 
almost like a maroon duotone rather than neutral. I found some 
profiles on the lyson site but none of them seemed to match the 1160 
and quad inks (you may know their terminology better?). I tried a 
couple of the profiles and they didn't really seem to change much.

Obviously you are getting a different experience. I wonder if there 
is some other setting I need to be aware of? would you mind posting 
the other printer/software settings you use?

Where can you buy Lyson bulk ink? I would be very interested in 
getting bulk small gamut ink, if not the warm or neutral quad? 

For me the reason to use the Lyson is not the price or clogging (I've 
never had a MIS ink clog, and have only heard of one or two others 
who have) but the Lyson ink is dye ink and makes much much better 
semi gloss and pearl paper prints.

Thanks for the post... Dying to find out where to buy the bulk ink.

Thanks,

Tom O'Connell

TomOC@...
www.thomasoconnell.com


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Cameraguy5" 
<frenchpassive@y...> wrote:
> I started off using Lumious quad inks (monochrome) and then 
> switched to Lyson. The reason being, the Lumious inks are 
> identical to, and made by Lyson, but the Lyson inks are a lot 
> cheaper. I've had very good results with these inks on my Epson 
> 1200 with no clogs what so ever. I haven't tried the MIS inks, and 
> probably won't because of all I read about the trouble everyone 
> seems to have with them regarding clogging etc. The other 
> beauty of the Lyson/Luminos inks are that you don't need any 
> special tweaking with curves and all that to get a great looking 
> print. I just convert my color image to grey scale, and then back 
to 
> RGB and print. No fuss, no muss.....couldn't be easier and with 
> perfect results every time. As for longevity, from what I read, 
they 
> will last 100+ years, but this is an on going debate with all the 
> inks, and unless one does their own scientific testing, we are 
> stuck with what info is out there, whether or not it's correct, so 
> what are you going to do? Everybody makes claims, so one has 
> to decide who to believe. I like the inks so much, that I'm setting 
> up a continuos flow system and buying the Lyson inks in bulk 
> bottles which will reduce my costs dramatically and allow me to 
> print as much as I want with out the worry of cost, not to mention 
> never having to change cartridges and flushing ink down the 
> toilet every time you do. By the way, I'm using the neutral tone 
ink 
> set. I haven't tired the warm and cool versions, but from what I 
> understand the longevity of the neutral is longer than the two. I'm 
> also printing on Hahnemuhle photo rag, which is a very nice 
> paper. The results is like photogravure...very lush and rich.
> I hope this has been useful to you......good luck!
> Don