Digital BW, The Print

These are two entirely different questions.  You are talking B&W only?

The K3 Epsons do not have bronzing or metamerism on matte (no printer
does) and do good B&W out of the box.  I'd really get a few sample
packs of paper. I personally like Innova Smooth White 315, PhotoRag
Duo, and Premier Art BW (for a brighter surface).  I don't find any of
their surfaces "distracting" (they are invisible at normal viewing
distances) and get perfectly good Dmax, especially under glass/plastic
sheets.  The Innova doesn't flake much in my experience.

I use the MIS UTR2 inkset in a letter sized printer and don't see any
bronzing or metamerism.  Maybe it's there but it's negligible compared
to color pigment inks.  There is some gloss differential, but using
papers like Harmon FB Al or Epson Premium Semimatte make that
negligible to me as well.  If you're really touchy you might need to
home brew a BW inkset that includes gloss optimizer which helps with
gloss differential and bronzing.  Note, none of this is out of the box.

Roger


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "jhargens2000"
<chargens@...> wrote:
>
> Are there any pigment printers out there that can out-of-the-box
> successfully print on glossy/semiglossy paper with zero bronzing and
> zero metamerism? I ask this because in all the discussion I've seen
> regarding pigment printing on glossy fiber there is always the
> admission that some bronzing still persists and that print spraying,
> or doing something else, will improve the bronzing problem. In a
> related vein, I would accept the limitation of printing on only matte
> paper - since I do like the nonglare of matte -  but I've yet to find
> a matte paper that has no (to one degree or another) distracting
> surface but _does_ have great dmax, handling etc. Any paper
> suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> Chris Hargens
>