Digital BW, The Print

FWIW I've been using Lyson Quad blacks, then the Lyson Small Gamut and now
back to the Quad blacks for about 2 years on an Epson 860 (4-color).   You
could get more neutral prints with the Small Gamut; but, other issues with
the small gamut made me discard them.   For one thing, they bronze on Lyson
265g paper and, overall, don't look quite as good to my eye as the Quad
Blacks.

Lyson Quad Blacks are not neutral grayscale.  They have a distinct color
metamorphosis depending on what light they are viewed under.  For me they
have consistently shifted magenta, most notibley in the midtones.   One
dealer I ordered Quad Blacks from (inkjetgoodies.com) said his factory
samples were neutral grayscale and he couldn't understand my problem.  I
sent him some samples and he realized the factory samples were all high/very
high contrast with little or no midtone information.

For me, as I need to get glossy prints, the Quad Blacks seem like the only
game in town.  ON your 1280 it will be a 6-color set and I would be curious
to see if Lyson has improved the inks.

best

Rick Schiller
www.rickschiller.com

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Subject: Lyson, 1280 and a Question

I recently bought a recondioned Epson 1280 and Lyson Quad-Tone Black
Inks (Neutral)cartridges. I've run several prints, using various
settings, and no matter what I get prints which look blueish in
sunlight, reddish in incandescent, and at that still look
like "digital" prints, with posterizing or something going on. I've
looked through the posts here and there isn't much in reference to
Lyson, most discussion seems directed to MIS. I was wondering if
Lyson is sort of a bastard-child of quad printing? I've already
ordered MIS to test them out...

Scott