Digital BW, The Print

I shoot digital only for a few years and my best B&W prints where 
from offset printing (quite expensive for a signe picture...)! 


I own a R800 (brillant for glossy & pearl color pictures), and tried 
some B&W with it:

- Epson carts, home made curves/balance correction. Not too bad, but 
varies really a LOT from one set of cart to the other, and the light 
must always be the same (metamerism). Full calibration needed after 
each cart change...

- Black Ink only (MATTE) with C. Metairie "Black Pigment" Ink. 
Really neutral, but not smooth enough in the light areas (but 
impressive shadow details)

- Outsourced Piezography... to expensive for me

For the price of a handful of piezo prints, I've just ordered a R220 
and a MIS UT-R2 cart set, results next month (I sell my Epson carts 
on eBay)!

Francois

The R800 and R1800 are the wrong printers for B&W.

Excellent for color, though.

Scott

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "timeexposure" 
<photo@p...> wrote:
>
> I shoot digital only for a few years and my best B&W prints where 
> from offset printing (quite expensive for a signe picture...)! 
> 
> 
> I own a R800 (brillant for glossy & pearl color pictures), and 
tried 
> some B&W with it:
> 
> - Epson carts, home made curves/balance correction. Not too bad, 
but 
> varies really a LOT from one set of cart to the other, and the 
light 
> must always be the same (metamerism). Full calibration needed after 
> each cart change...
> 
> - Black Ink only (MATTE) with C. Metairie "Black Pigment" Ink. 
> Really neutral, but not smooth enough in the light areas (but 
> impressive shadow details)
> 
> - Outsourced Piezography... to expensive for me
> 
> For the price of a handful of piezo prints, I've just ordered a 
R220 

> and a MIS UT-R2 cart set, results next month (I sell my Epson carts 
> on eBay)!
> 
> Francois
>