Digital BW, The Print

Sarah-

We met briefly at last year's BetterLight conference.

We use K7 inks now, and have been using Cone's stuff from the 
beginning; I'm a big fan.

But you mentioned glossy papers. We recently added an HP Z3100 to our 
"printer farm" and the gloss enhancer on the new baryta papers is 
something to behold.

Bill Kennedy
K2 Press
Austin, Texas


-----Original Message-----
From: Sarah Thompson <sarah@...>
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 6:50 pm
Subject: [Digital BW] Where next from K7 split tone?



(Re-sent -- my previous attempt failed, I think, so apologies if you 
get

this twice)



Hi folks,



I've recently been using a K7 ink set in my r2400 to great success,

mostly printing on Moab Entrada with the profiles that shipped with QTR.

I've had some really lovely results with some low-key portraits

recently, and have had no difficulty getting good prints first time

thanks to using a colour managed workflow in PS CS3. I currently need to

order more ink, so I'm wondering whether to go for a CIS solution now,

or hang on until the K7 gloss support settles down.



What I'd *really* like is to be able to go back to gloss papers, but I

currently don't have a spectrophotometer so rolling my own profiles

would be tricky (not impossible, I've managed it before, but given how

well the profiles I'd been using with K7 split tone worked, I'm not

confident that I could duplicate those results).



So, what do I do? Do I:



1. Just buy another set of K7 split tone carts and wait a while

2. Buy a CIS and use K7 split tone in it now

3. Buy a CIS and go for K7 gloss in bottles and join the bleeding edge



I'm currently getting into a fairly substantial project that is going to

require quite a few prints, so going the CIS route is probably necessary

just from the point of view of cost-effectiveness, but I don't want to

invest in K7 split tone again if I can reasonably go for the new gloss

solution.



Advice/comments?



Thank you in advance,

Sarah