Digital BW, The Print

> Jerry, thanks for your suggestions in such a timely manner.  The only
> question that I would like to ask again is why it seems that very
> few, if anyone, print b&w photos using the 6 color inkset.

Hi Dave,

Because most of them get color crossovers like reddish shadows and cyan highlights. This is a horrible combination in my opinion. Especially
prevalent with epson inks. With a great amount of tweaking, you can probably get a good print, such as color balancing the shadows, midtones
and highlights separately in photoshop.

But a prints inks fade at different times. One color will always shift before the other colors. And then you'll get a color shift you may
not want in your print. With the archival inks, this won't be a problem for many years. But it is just So much easier to print black and
whites with quad or hextone inks.

I got the 1280 because they solved the chip problem in that printer and a CIS is available that works, and it produces incredible quality
prints.]


> Out of
> close to 100 different images printed within the last 2 weeks on the
> 1280, only 4 had a bit of a crosscurve of magenta in the highlights
> with green in the shadow, on somerset enhanced paper.  There was no
> problem on the LPM or EAM.  I would like to try the longer lasting
> inks (MIS).  If I could even come close to how the prints look like
> with the epson dyes, I would be happy.

You should be able to come very close. Be sure you profile your monitor, and get a profile built for the MIS inkset and your favorite paper.

Jerry

Thanks again Jerry.  I guess that I must be doing something wrong, or right, 
to be able to get great looking b&w prints using a 6 color inkset.  I will 
try the CIS for the 1280 with the 6 color pigs.  I'll let you know how the 
b&w prints come out.
Davd

You are doing something right. SAVE your "Recipe"!  After profiling my printer, blacks and grays are fairly neutral with the MIS color FOUR
ink pigs...

Jerry


daschkenas@... wrote:

> Thanks again Jerry.  I guess that I must be doing something wrong, or right,
> to be able to get great looking b&w prints using a 6 color inkset.  I will
> try the CIS for the 1280 with the 6 color pigs.  I'll let you know how the
> b&w prints come out.
> Davd
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