Digital BW, The Print

Does anyone have experience with this combo and if so what were the 
best papers. I'm looking for  B&W results over the archival 
factor.I'm infact getting reasonable results with just tweeking the 
printer as is. My monitor has been spydered.....calibrated.
I really am happy with this printer on my IBM. The colour is perfect 
and much more consistent than the 1280 I had which was slow and hard 
to adjust after awhile. Epson help was very little at best. Their 
excuses were the best mind you....
TY Stephan, Toronto

I use Lyson Quads in a Canon 900 and 9000, with what I think are wonderful 
results.  The 950 is the next iteration of the 900, with finer nozzles, but 
Lyson has told me that the Quads will work in the 950 as well.  I'm doing 
800-1000 prints to bind up into books as Christmas presents for various 
family members (been doing this for about 20 years - this is the first year 
entirely in the light and dry) and have settled on Legion Photo 
Matte.  It's brighter and heavier than the Epson matte papers, and while 
somewhat more expensive it's not a dollar a sheet as some of the fine 
papers seem to be (my local store sold it to me for under 40 cents a sheet 
when I ordered a bunch.)  If you like RC type prints, I'd suggest starting 
with the Ilford Classic Gloss and Classic Pearl papers - very wet 
darkroom-like results with those two, and they too are not all that expensive

Enjoy.

Cheers,
Kip

At 11/26/2003 10:52 PM +0000, you wrote:

>Does anyone have experience with this combo and if so what were the
>best papers. I'm looking for  B&W results over the archival
>factor.I'm infact getting reasonable results with just tweeking the
>printer as is. My monitor has been spydered.....calibrated.
>I really am happy with this printer on my IBM. The colour is perfect
>and much more consistent than the 1280 I had which was slow and hard
>to adjust after awhile. Epson help was very little at best. Their
>excuses were the best mind you....
>TY Stephan, Toronto

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Kip Babington 
<cbabing3@s...> wrote:
> with the Ilford Classic Gloss and Classic Pearl papers - very wet 
> darkroom-like results with those two, and they too are not all that 
expensive
> 
> Enjoy.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kip


Kip I use the Ilford classic pearl and if you use the 8.5 X 11 and 
buy it in boxes of 250 it's down right cheap! and a real nice looking 
paper from my beginner point of view.

Mark W.

I agree with you, Mark, in the large boxes the Ilford classic papers are a 
bargain.  In addition to the way Ilford papers look, the fact that Ilford 
is willing to treat me like a working photographer (by offering 100 and 250 
sheet packages) rather than a home hobbyist (by offering only 25 or at most 
50 sheet packages) is one of the major reasons that I like to give them my 
business.

Cheers,
Kip

At 11/27/2003 07:14 AM +0000, you wrote:

>Kip I use the Ilford classic pearl and if you use the 8.5 X 11 and
>buy it in boxes of 250 it's down right cheap! and a real nice looking
>paper from my beginner point of view.
>
>Mark W.