Digital BW, The Print

Clayton you are my man ;-) it´s fantastic, with the settings you 
recommend in your article #4 i get wonderful black only prints just 
with a cheap black ink (armor ink for just 6 €) on Brilliant Museum 
Satin Matte paper. I am very happy now with the results and 
astonishing the multigray prints with TritonPlus ink are not better 
then the BO!
But is it a good idea to use the cheap ink for my BO prints while 
attempting longliving pictures? I want to store them in the dark so 
is it ok to use a cheap dye ink or what can i do alternatively with 
my Epson 1200? You wrote about the Eboni ink. Which carbon inks are 
available for this printer?
Thank you so much for the help!

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones" 
<cj@...> wrote:
>
> Hello Frank,
> 
> Welcome to the forum.
> 
> >I also tried out Clayton Jones BO method, but the prints have very 
> >strong contrast with no details in black areas. Is there any 
> >workaround related to this...
> 
> If you see dark zone details on screen you should be able to get 
them
> on paper, whether using BO or any other printing method.  If you're
> not it could be caused by various things.  With the BO technique the
> trick is to choose an image profile that gets a good screen to print
> match, so what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG).  This profile can
> vary depending on your monitor/video card, etc. My suggestion of 
using
> DG20 is just a starting point because it's in the middle of the 
range.
> 
> The proof paper you use to set this up is also important because
> papers have different contrast curves.  I always recommend using EEM
> because it's inexpensive, has good dmax, and has a contrast/density
> range that's right in the middle of where many of the best papers 
are.
>  Once you have this properly set up you'll adjust your image to look
> good on screen and you'll get very close to that on paper, depending
> on which paper you use.  Final prints on other papers sometimes 
need a
> paper curve layer with some slight tweaking to match the proof 
print.
> In article #4 there is a detailed discussion for all this.   
> 
> Regards,
> Clayton
> 
> 
> Info on black and white digital printing at    
> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
>