Digital BW, The Print

I don't want this to be true, but reading Paul Roark's post makes 
me suspect of my combination of inks/paper too. I use the 
lightfast MIS dyes, which are supposedly very similar to the 
1270-type inks. I print on Epson Smooth Fine Art, which I know is 
designed for pigments, not dyes.

Yesterday I made a print and then picked it back up today. 
Yesterday, right out of the printer, it showed a marked look of 
yellowish-magenta. (It's basically a greyscale image, converted 
to RGB, and then toned using Colorize; my normal method). 
Today, the tones were less saturdated and shifted more toward 
a slightly greenish color in the midtones to darker tones.

I've always wondered what exactly happens when you print dyes 
on a paper that's meant for pigments. My limited talks about 
coatings make me know that I'm pretty clueless about 
interactions between inks and the coating of the paper.

I love this ESFA, and don't want to give it up. But now I think I 
might need to reprofile, but let the colorchips dry completely 
overnight before I send them out to get read by the DTP41. I think 
before, I just sent them right to the lab, probably while the ink 
was still wet.

(Someday, we'll get a company who makes both inks AND 
papers, where all this R&D testing has happened before it's 
released to the public).

-Mark Tucker