Digital BW, The Print

Hello,

I'm about to dip my toe in the digital printing pool and would like to start
experimenting a bit. I am looking for inks and paper to start out with. From
reading the posts here, I gather that the MIS inks are a good choice (I have
a 1280 printer), but I noticed they have different sets for matte and glossy
papers. In the darkroom I use glossy, fiber based papers, but I am not on a
quest to duplicate this look. If the consensus is that better results (read:
deep blacks, hassle minmization) are achieved with matte papers, I'll start
there. Again, I just need a reasonable starting point - I'm assuming
there'll be a lot of paper circular-filed before I get the hang of this.

Thanks in advance,

Jim Kish

Go with the Matte and no, you will not throw away too many.  You will 
be amazed at how your prints look once you start doing this.  

I did it on the cheap to see what the possibilities were.  $90 epson 
C84 and some MIS warm tones.  Can only do 8x10s, but gee, what a 
print!

Enjoy!

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--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Jim Kish" 
<jim@k...> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm about to dip my toe in the digital printing pool and would like 
to start
> experimenting a bit. I am looking for inks and paper to start out 
with. From
> reading the posts here, I gather that the MIS inks are a good 
choice (I have
> a 1280 printer), but I noticed they have different sets for matte 
and glossy
> papers. In the darkroom I use glossy, fiber based papers, but I am 
not on a
> quest to duplicate this look. If the consensus is that better 
results (read:
> deep blacks, hassle minmization) are achieved with matte papers, 
I'll start
> there. Again, I just need a reasonable starting point - I'm assuming
> there'll be a lot of paper circular-filed before I get the hang of 
this.

> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Jim Kish

Hello Jim,

>I'm about to dip my toe in the digital printing pool and would 
>like to start experimenting a bit. I am looking for inks and 
>paper to start out with. 
>...I just need a reasonable starting point 

There are lots of ways to go at it and it can be hard to decide what
to do.  There are some articles at the link below which give an
overview and will fill in a lot of blanks.

Regards,
Clayton


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