Re: [Digital BW] Ink Thrift
2012-09-08 by Pamela Holt
I was unable to locate the 500 ml Noritsu black ink on Epson s website. I only saw a single cartridge, which I can pick up locally. Do you have a link?
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Re: Silver Rag Yellowing
2012-09-08 by ClaytonJ
Hello Seth, ... No, there were only ink jet printers: the 2400, an R200 (now gone), and an HP 6122 (a general office printer, old faithful, still running).
Which printer for B&W
2012-09-08 by lurique2003
Hello, I ve never printed, I want do the best as possible B&W, without cast greenish/pinky or magenta. I love the wide range of grey tones from black to white,
Re: [Digital BW] Ink Thrift
2012-09-07 by Pamela Holt
Okay, thanks for all you do. Our internet has been out at home, so I ll be on it this weekend to make the donation. Take care! ... [Non-text portions of this
Re: [Digital BW] Ink Thrift
2012-09-07 by Paul Roark
... You will have to mix the inks. The clear base can be either mixed by you, or you can buy it from MIS. See
Re: [Digital BW] Ink Thrift
2012-09-07 by Pamela Holt
Thanks! Are these other inks already pre-diluted, or are there instructions for that, also? (I don t mind the extra cost or the extra work. We are more
Re: [Digital BW] Ink Thrift
2012-09-07 by Paul Roark
... Most of my prints are made with either MIS carbon pigment inks (see http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/Eboni-6.pdf) or Epson/Noritsu dyes (see
Re: [Digital BW] Ink Thrift
2012-09-07 by Pamela Holt
I may be missing something, but do you have a longer-lasting replacement for the MIS dyes? Are the dyes different from the MIS inks? I don t want to sell a
Webinar on Fine Art Reproduction Techniques
2012-09-07 by C D Tobie
Any of you with an interest in capturing, editing, or printing fine art reproductions may find this webinar of interest:
Re: [Digital BW] Re: Ink Thrift
2012-09-07 by Paul Roark
... I don t know of public, high qualtiy tests of the various dye competitors, aside from Epson s and HP s, both of which are at the high end of the dye
Re: Ink Thrift
2012-09-07 by remononaz1
Paul: Is it possible to share a link for the report on the MIS inks? I ve been using them for several years. They are inexpensive but do fade. I m no pro, but
Exposure characteristics of chromogenic films (was Re: [Digital BW] Re: What Asa to shoot tmax400 with standard development)
2012-09-06 by Dana Myers
... Hopefully this isn t too far off-topic in a Digital B&W *Printing* group. My experience with both Ilford and Kodak chromogenic film is they under-expose
Re: [Digital BW] Ink Thrift
2012-09-06 by Paul Roark
Encapsulated dyes ? OK, that s a new one. I hope what they are is like the Claria/Noritsu dyes, but I d say the burden of proof is on any dye seller to
Re: [Digital BW] UT-3D update?
2012-09-06 by Paul Roark
Myron, I m sure the UT-3D approach would work in the 4880, but there are some caveats. First, I don t have any profiles for it. Second, in K3 printers I was
Ink Thrift
2012-09-06 by pdesmidt tds.net
Has anyone tried the Ink Thrift encapsulated dye inks that Inkjetmall sells? They re supposed to be waterproof:
Re: [Digital BW] 2K2LK RR Metallic Paper - Fading Fast
2012-09-06 by Paul Roark
The MIS dye is not the Claria/Noritsu dye that I recommend. Old style dyes fade very quckly. Even the Claria/Noritsu dyes fade faster than a good carbon-based
Re: [Digital BW] Re: What Asa to shoot tmax400 with standard development
2012-09-06 by Tony Sleep
... I think WS means that it s very non-linear - most of the response of the chromogenics is a short toe followed by one long shoulder. There isn t a
Re: UT-3D update?
2012-09-06 by MyronG
Oops! How embarrassing! All the recent discussion of weak blacks on the Epson 4000 was in reference to the very kind of inkset I was asking about. So:
UT-3D update?
2012-09-06 by MyronG
For a few years I happily used MIS s UT-3D in an Epson 2200. It produced image tones that worked well for me, but most importantly, I could switch between
Re: [Digital BW] Re: What Asa to shoot tmax400 with standard development
2012-09-06 by Tony Sleep
... I always thought it didn t, and that straight-line response was a design aim of T-grain, but it seems like it does and it doesn t, depending on dev/temp
2K2LK RR Metallic Paper - Fading Fast
2012-09-06 by remononaz1
Last spring I posted several notes about using the 2K2LK ink formula on Red River Polar Metallic paper. I used MIS D2-4-K black dye ink with the
Re: [Digital BW] Re: Silver Rag Yellowing
2012-09-06 by Ernst Dinkla
... Paul, True RC papers with PE barriers show their structure when you immerse a 5mm wide strip in hot water for half a minute and then pull at both sides of
Re: Silver Rag Yellowing
2012-09-05 by Seth Rossman
Another question for Clayton. With Paul s finding, was there a medium to high use laser printer (I m reaching, like everyone) in the room. Especially, an
Re: [Digital BW] Re: What Asa to shoot tmax400 with standard development
2012-09-05 by pdesmidt tds.net
I used TMX in 4x5 for over a decade. Since my supply of Readyloads finally gave out, I switched to TMY for a trip this summer. The newest version is pretty
Re: [Digital BW] Re: What Asa to shoot tmax400 with standard development
2012-09-05 by David Kachel
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Re: [Digital BW] Create icc problem (UT14 curves on matte paper)
2012-09-05 by Paul Roark
... Sorry, I misread the post. ... There is a neutral ICC for HPR (Hahnemuhle Photo Rag). It is true that I mostly expected people to make their own ICCs. I
Re: What Asa to shoot tmax400 with standard development
2012-09-05 by blasterman789
In regards to TMAX 400, while I haven t shot the material in several years I do have a background setting up a few professional B&W processing lines and recall
Re: [Digital BW] Create icc problem (UT14 curves on matte paper)
2012-09-05 by Foon Hoe
Hi Paul, Thanks for the reply. Sorry if I have confused you, but I am trying to make warm toned prints on matte papers. Your 1400-profile.zip only has .icc for
Re: [Digital BW] Neutralish Glossy Printing
2012-09-05 by Ernst Dinkla
... Paul, I only see a recent Pamela Holt message on that subject and I do not want to draw the wrong conclusions ...... -- Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst
Re: [Digital BW] Neutralish Glossy Printing
2012-09-05 by Ernst Dinkla
... The German link is where I got it. Bought 2 liters. Good price for EU users too if compared to US sources like MIS GO or EU distributors of Image
Re: [Digital BW] Neutralish Glossy Printing
2012-09-05 by pdesmidt tds.net
Thanks for the tip! I just put in an order. If worse comes to worse, my daughters will have some very nice water color paper.
Re: [Digital BW] Create icc problem (UT14 curves on matte paper)
2012-09-05 by Paul Roark
... Start with curves made for glossy papers, such as the Ilford Gold Silk or the Kirkland. Use one that states nca - no color adjustment. The matte paper
Re: [Digital BW] Neutralish Glossy Printing
2012-09-05 by Paul
Ernst, ... I definitely agree with that position. ... See the post I just made of my observations of Clayton s samples. You may well be right. However,
Re: [Digital BW] Silver Rag Yellowing
2012-09-05 by Pamela Holt
Viruses (organic) hang onto paper for a very long time. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [Digital BW] Neutralish Glossy Printing
2012-09-05 by Paul Roark
... Blick is a reliable supplier I ve been using for years, and their prices are good, but not at good as
Re: Silver Rag Yellowing
2012-09-05 by Paul
... Clayton was good enough to send me a couple of samples of the yellowed Museo Silver Rag. I don t have the chemistry background or tools to know what
Re: [Digital BW] Neutralish Glossy Printing
2012-09-05 by pdesmidt tds.net
... Eboni MK, MIS PK and HP PK on hand. Is Dick Blick the best place to get Arches water color paper? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [Digital BW] Neutralish Glossy Printing
2012-09-05 by Paul Roark
I got very good dmax with my 2200 and Eboni. My opinion of the 4000 low matte paper dmax may be limited to that specific machine. I have found no information
Re: [Digital BW] Re: What Asa to shoot tmax400 with standard development
2012-09-05 by Tony Sleep
... Fair enough. Despite my stuff being reportage-ish, grain was something I didn t like much, it got in the way. I could accept it in other peoples work but
Re: [Digital BW] Re: What Asa to shoot tmax400 with standard development
2012-09-05 by Jacques Caron
Mr.Sleep, I think that you opted for a higher temp following advices that the less time the emulsion is immersed in a liquid, the better it will be. In the old
Re: [Digital BW] Neutralish Glossy Printing
2012-09-05 by Terry Ritz
... I got exceptional Dmax with Canon s PK on my 2200, which is the same generation of printer as your 7600. When I moved to the full 6KPlus set, using the MIS
Re: [Digital BW] Re: What Asa to shoot tmax400 with standard development
2012-09-05 by Tony Sleep
... Fair point. TMax400 in Kodak s own TMax developer is very, very good. I never found a dev that suited it better, nor other 35mm T-grain films. I used it
Re: [Digital BW] Re: What Asa to shoot tmax400 with standard development
2012-09-05 by Jacques Caron
Hi all With so many third-party plug-ins for Photoshop that put back grain in digital pictures, it seems that it was not à bad thing! It can be worse under
Create icc problem (UT14 curves on matte paper)
2012-09-05 by feedthefoon
I have recently got the UT14 set and was quite happy with the prints just using Epson driver - grayscale. I ran in to some problems trying to create some iccs
Re: [Digital BW] Re: What Asa to shoot tmax400 with standard development
2012-09-05 by Seth Rossman
Noise is a lot LESS of an issue with chromagenics, IME, exactly because the sharp well-defined grain pattern has been replaced by more diffuse dye clouds.
Re: [Digital BW] Neutralish Glossy Printing
2012-09-05 by pdesmidt tds.net
Thank you very much Paul, Terry and Ernst! Right now, I m looking for an inkset for a 7600. Paul has mentioned that he gets a low dmax with his 4000 and
Re: [Digital BW] Neutralish Glossy Printing
2012-09-05 by Ernst Dinkla
... Paul, There are several good reasons to drop glossy pigment inks like bronzing, gloss difference, etc but the yellow edges of Museo Silver Rag should not
Re: [Digital BW] Neutralish Glossy Printing
2012-09-05 by Terry Ritz
Hi Peter. I see that Paul has already given you some feedback. Perhaps I can add a bit flavour based on my own experiments. I ve experimented with an HP PK
Re: [Digital BW] Neutralish Glossy Printing
2012-09-04 by Paul Roark
... Glop warms the HP PK a bit more than the generic base or the tone of the HP Gray -- on the order of one Lab b unit, I believe (from memory). ... I played
Neutralish Glossy Printing
2012-09-04 by Peter
I m considering setting up a gloss printer, and I d prefer neutral to mildly warmish tones. In looking at Aardenburg tests, the piezography MPS don t seem to