Digital BW, The Print

Does anyone have any experience with the Lyson Hex-Black set 
of inks? I print primarily in neutral tones, so this set sounds very 
appealing to me. Haven't turned up much about it on a google 
search, and the lyson site itself doesn't carry any information 
about it.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "wooismyid" 
<wooismyid@y...> wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience with the Lyson Hex-Black set 
> of inks? I print primarily in neutral tones, so this set sounds 
very 
> appealing to me. Haven't turned up much about it on a google 
> search, and the lyson site itself doesn't carry any information 
> about it.

I've been using the Lyson neutral Quadtone and hexblack inksets for a 
couple of years now and have been very pleased with the results on 
Red River's Polar Gloss and UltraPro Gloss papers for my Epson 3000 
and the Lyson Professional Photo Gloss 265gsm on my Epson 9000.  The 
E3000 prints can exhibit a very, very slight warm green cast if 
placed next to a true neutral gray print, but not objectionably so.  
The E9000 prints are excellent - a barely cool neutral with deep 
blacks.  Different papers have different tonal casts, so one must try 
them out.

The standard Epson 3000 driver does OK, the standard Epson 9000 
driver does not. I use Cadlink's PhotoScript+ RIP with its special 
hexblack feature for the 9000.

www.lyson.com does have info on their Quadtone black inks (hexblack 
the same but with two more) along with some longevity results.

Regards,

John Lytton
www.lyttonimaging.com

I see that John has had some success with "professional" printers. I 
tried the Lyson small gamut hex on a 1270 and really was not happy 
with the results...could have been profiling but shadows jammed up 
and I went back to using LSG only on the quad printers (1160s)...I am 
very happy with the results I get there.

Cheers,

Tom O'Connell

TomOC@...
www.thomasoconnell.com


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "wooismyid" 
<wooismyid@y...> wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience with the Lyson Hex-Black set 
> of inks? I print primarily in neutral tones, so this set sounds 
very 

> appealing to me. Haven't turned up much about it on a google 
> search, and the lyson site itself doesn't carry any information 
> about it.