Digital BW, The Print

Please take a look at a few areas from one of my Piezotone prints that was 
hanging for two months unframed:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint/files/Ink%20Set
s/PiezoTones/
(select, copy and paste the address to your browser if it's wrapped around a 
second line)

Look inside the folder:  Piezotone prints that show faded black.

Please keep in mind that this was printed on Epson Archival (aka Enhanced) 
Matte using Image Print 4. It may well be that IP4 puts down more black ink 
with no other gray underneath. As a result, the failure of the black will show 
more dramatically here than it may with other drivers. 

Antonis

Antonis,

These comparisons show the bad Piezotone black ink fade.  However, since the
"original file" image appears to be just that -- an RGB version of a
grayscale file -- and not a scan of a control, dark storage print, the
comparison also appears, I beleive inaccurately, to suggest that the
midtones turn green.

Paul
http://www.PaulRoark.com


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  -----Original Message-----
  From: Antonis Ricos [mailto:antonisphoto@...]
  Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 3:02 PM
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: [Digital BW] Samples of a faded piezotone print uploaded


  Please take a look at a few areas from one of my Piezotone prints that was
  hanging for two months unframed:

  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint/files/Ink%20Set
  s/PiezoTones/
  (select, copy and paste the address to your browser if it's wrapped around
a
  second line)

  Look inside the folder:  Piezotone prints that show faded black.

  Please keep in mind that this was printed on Epson Archival (aka Enhanced)
  Matte using Image Print 4. It may well be that IP4 puts down more black
ink
  with no other gray underneath. As a result, the failure of the black will
show
  more dramatically here than it may with other drivers.

  Antonis


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Paul,

you are right, I didn't do this very scientifically, i.e. didn't make two sets and 
keep one in the dark. The best I can do now is reprint and scan the two prints 
at the same time. I was planning on doing that , but my time is very 
constrained these days and in the meantime I wanted to give people an idea 
of what I was talking about with the black fade. 

This series of prints weren't really meant as fade tests!... who knew?  

Antonis



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Paul Roark" <paul.roark@v...> 
wrote:
> Antonis,
> 
> These comparisons show the bad Piezotone black ink fade.  However, since 
the

> "original file" image appears to be just that -- an RGB version of a
> grayscale file -- and not a scan of a control, dark storage print, the
> comparison also appears, I beleive inaccurately, to suggest that the
> midtones turn green.
> 
> Paul
> http://www.PaulRoark.com