Digital BW, The Print

Sorry for the OT, but I thought as a follow-on the B&W dyes success some might be curious. 

I've been collaborating with a color printer to explore taking the Epson-Noritsu (Claria type) dyes to a 17" printer.  We've taken our best printing shots with B&W and color pigment inksets (he uses the top Canon), and they just can't touch the look of the dyes on the metallic paper for eye-catching impact.  The pigs on the surface veil the image highlights, with gloss optimizer being even worse.

So, since I like large prints with lots of detail, I'm going to port the Noritsu dyes to wide format.  I think the Epson Claria/Noritsu dyes are a fairly unique technology, and wide format with them will be a unique approach not only in B&W but also color.  

(The "sun" really shines through the stained glass at St. Chapelle <http://www.paulroark.com/StChapelle-color.jpg> when dyes and the metallic paper are used.)

The next major hurtle is whether the easy profiling software that the color printer uses will be able to handle a dye in a driver (Epson 4000) that was never made with this in mind. 

It should be a fun project.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com