Digital BW, The Print

Helene,

>What is the status of the sepia inkset?
>Have you finalized the formula and
>is MIS interested in producing it?

I think "yes" to all of the above, but my 1160 crashed.  So I haven't been
able to test the final formula.  I hope to have the printer back next week.
Then the Sepia-to-Neutral, FS density check (there may be an FS2), and the
Neutral FS are all close to being done.

By the way, my first submission to a juried show with the Sepia inkset was
the landscape that is in this coming print exchange.  It took the judges'
award (aka Best of Show).  Since it is a mixed-media show, the question I
was most interested in was whether the sepia tone helps B&Ws when they are
hanging close to and in competition with color photos and paintings.  The
neutral silver prints have always suffered next to color, in my view.  I and
the others who've talked about this problem think the sepia is working.  It
gets rid of the "blah gray" impression silver prints can suffer from in such
situations.  (I still prefer the silver prints in my home.)

Paul
http://www.PaulRoark.com

In a message dated 12/11/2001 10:39:03 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
paul.roark@... writes:

<<  I
 was most interested in was whether the sepia tone helps B&Ws when they are
 hanging close to and in competition with color photos and paintings.  The
 neutral silver prints have always suffered next to color, in my view.  I and
 the others who've talked about this problem think the sepia is working.  It
 gets rid of the "blah gray" impression silver prints can suffer from in such
 situations.  (I still prefer the silver prints in my home.) >>
I have had customers refer to my sepia prints as black and white, but the 
brown ones. If I show both versions, nine times out of ten they but the 
sepia. I guess they can call it black and white, but they like the color. 
George J Kunze