Digital BW, The Print

Following is the text from the latest Lyson news brief.  Might be a 
good solution for printing on RC papers.

Lyson Quad Black
Toneable inkset
By combining three channels of
archival Lyson Quad Black
neutral with two channels of Quad
Black warm and two further
channels of Quad Black cool, Lyson
has created a totally new toneable
archival Quad Black inkset.With
certified longevity of 100 years in
indoor display conditions, this
inkset turns your 2100 into a
versatile monochrome printer, and
has the ability to produce excellent
neutral black & white prints, which
may be uniformly toned towards
warm or cool in infinitely variable
steps, or mix warm/neutral/cool
tones across densities using Adobe
Photoshop controls.
Beautifully smooth graduations
give you hand-print tonality,
working well with gloss, lustre, matt
and fine art media. Adding a Lyson
CIS system with this inkset gives
you the same ink cost savings as for
Lyson Fotonic inks.

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--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Carl Schofield
<scho@m...> wrote:
> Following is the text from the latest Lyson news brief.  Might be a 
> good solution for printing on RC papers.
> 
> Lyson Quad Black
> Toneable inkset
> By combining three channels of
> archival Lyson Quad Black
> neutral with two channels of Quad
> Black warm and two further
> channels of Quad Black cool, Lyson
> has created a totally new toneable
> archival Quad Black inkset....

I have to admit this is a bit of a disappointment. I was hoping the
new set would be a completely reformulated solution. The old quad sets
were highly metameric, and I had my fill of mixing and matching
between the neutral, cool, and warm sets to fine tune things years
ago. In fact, on some papers metamerism was worse then with some color
inksets.
I hope to see what user's impressions are, but the hope of a dye set
on RC paper still seems not quite there. Too bad since reports of the
new paper are good.
The old Spectratones had more promise.
Tyler

That is disappointing if these are the old inks.  Based on the earlier 
Lyson/Bowhaus press release I had assumed that this was the new inkset 
that promised no metamerism on the Darkroom range gloss and matte 
papers that were to be part of their "B&W Digital Darkroom" solution.

Carl

On Thursday, May 6, 2004, at 09:21  PM, Tyler Boley wrote:

> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Carl Schofield
> <scho@m...> wrote:
>> Following is the text from the latest Lyson news brief.  Might be a
>> good solution for printing on RC papers.
>>
>> Lyson Quad Black
>> Toneable inkset
>> By combining three channels of
>> archival Lyson Quad Black
>> neutral with two channels of Quad
>> Black warm and two further
>> channels of Quad Black cool, Lyson
>> has created a totally new toneable
>> archival Quad Black inkset....
>
> I have to admit this is a bit of a disappointment. I was hoping the
> new set would be a completely reformulated solution. The old quad sets
> were highly metameric, and I had my fill of mixing and matching
> between the neutral, cool, and warm sets to fine tune things years
> ago. In fact, on some papers metamerism was worse then with some color
> inksets.
> I hope to see what user's impressions are, but the hope of a dye set
> on RC paper still seems not quite there. Too bad since reports of the
> new paper are good.
> The old Spectratones had more promise.
> Tyler