Digital BW, The Print

Check out message 8547 where Michael Kravit replied to my very 
similar question.

Regards,

James

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "flyfishingusa2002" 
<tflyfish@c...> wrote:
> Ok, I was recently challenged toquestions, so the following is a 
> couple that I have. 
> 
> 
> My used 3000 is now producing fine prints after I did a stack of 
> head adjustments. The Peizo inks that i had in my 1160 CIS system I 
> transferred to some empty 3000 cartridges and everything is 
> wonderful apart from a slight cast from the magenta postion. My 
> question to the forum is, "Why use Joe Cones inks when I can get 
MIS 
> inks much cheaper?" I am sure that there must be a good reason. 
> If I do use the MIS inks will they intermix with the Joe Cone inks?
> 
> I notice in all the workflows that the conversion from RGB color to 
> grayscale is easy using the mixer channel or using the desaturated 
> color method. But some of my prints look muddy, when I tried to 
> correct with the sliders,indeed when I did the RGB to grayscale 
> conversion in PS I end up often with gaps in the histogram on the 
> dark end, which resulted in the shadow area of my prints looking 
> like they had been posterised. Selection and applying noise helped 
a 
> bit, but not a great deal. Any comments on this one?
> 
> I also notice that the Photo section of this forum is empty,how 
> about putting some examples of our work there to see what others 
> might aspire to? 
> My current interest is in infrared. I am personally new to using 
the 
> Piezo/MIS system, but I feel that I am getting there!
> 
> 
> 
> Nodbo