Digital BW, The Print

I met with Charles Berger of Ultrastable Color Systems (developer of the
best printer paper for the Wide Spectrum inks) a week or two back - the dye
inks of Lincoln offer a perfect opportunity to print on glossy surfaces, and
judging by the _colour_ print I saw - Fantastic!

I'm hoping to be testing the colour inks & papers on small format printers
in the near future.

Nij



-----Original Message-----
From: ron@... [mailto:ron@...]
Sent: 30 July 2001 22:25
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] Spectratone Quadtone inks


I just received a two sample prints from Allen Takichi Maertz of
Lincoln Ink & Papers, www.lincolninks.com, printed with their
Spectratone monochrome inks.  One print is on Oce watercolor paper,
and was not impressive.  The other is on Ilford 9 mil Glossy paper
and is most impressive.  The blacks are incredible.  I measured the
reflectance of the zero patch to be 2.4!  This I compared to a zero
patch reading of Cone's inks on German Etching Board (Orwell) which
is 1.63.

The sample was printed on an Epson 3000 as a CMYK file using the
Adobe Pressready RIP.  I can see the dither pattern, but overall it's
not too bad.

The print on the Ilford glossy looks very much like a photo RC glossy
print, which is not the look I prefer for my fine art prints, but
that black is hard to dismiss.

I'm going to order a sample of the paper to try with Cone's inkset.
They'll probably smear, but it's worth a try.  I'll also order a set
of Spectratone carts for my 3000 and print through Cone's RIP and my
Wasatch RIP.

I'll post my findings.

Ron



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