Digital BW, The Print

hello all, 

i am a peace corps volunteer who just got home from africa. i am very
interested in printing b&w digitally. i have a 1280 printer and was
wondering about inks, papers, rips, profiles etc. if any one can help
me  in getting started i would appreciate it. i have about 10,000
images to go through and about 3/4 of them are b&w, so, i will be busy
and since this is where printing is going i would like to jump on the
bandwagon. well have a great day and thanks for your help. 

stephen

I suggest you get an inexpensive-but-film-oriented flatbed scanner,
such as an Epson 3200 or 4870...ideally refurbished directly from
Epson to save $$.. use this scanner to make low resolution proofs. You
may want to get Qimage, an inexpensive application that's good for
"enlarged proof sheets." 

You will eventually decide that the flatbed isn't perfect for your
ultimate enlargements (most will look OK for your initial purposes)
but it will give you an inexpensive running start and will be the most
efficient way to review your 10,000 shots :-) And it's nice to have a
flatbed around for other purposes.

fwiw I'm using an Epson 3200 and a Nikon V ED. 


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "inriverite"
<inriverite@y...> wrote:

> 
> 
> hello all, 
> 
> i am a peace corps volunteer who just got home from africa. i am very
> interested in printing b&w digitally. i have a 1280 printer and was
> wondering about inks, papers, rips, profiles etc. if any one can help
> me  in getting started i would appreciate it. i have about 10,000
> images to go through and about 3/4 of them are b&w, so, i will be busy
> and since this is where printing is going i would like to jump on the
> bandwagon. well have a great day and thanks for your help. 
> 
> stephen

Hello Stephen,

>i am a peace corps volunteer who just got home from africa. i am very
>interested in printing b&w digitally. i have a 1280 printer and was
>wondering about inks, papers, rips, profiles etc. if any one can help
>me  in getting started i would appreciate it. i have about 10,000
>images to go through and about 3/4 of them are b&w, so, i will be
busy
>and since this is where printing is going i would like to jump on the
>bandwagon. well have a great day and thanks for your help. 

Welcome to the forum.  With so many choices it's hard to know where to
begin.  The quickest and easiest way to get started is with the Black
Only (BO) technique.  You can do it now with what you have, without
any investment or commitment to a particular system.  It will teach
you a lot of the basics while you "get your feet wet".  Any time you
feel ready you can try other things.

There is information about how to do it at the web link below.  See
article #3.


Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm