Digital BW, The Print

Hi Jerry,

 Thank you, I will be very interested in how you make out with the 
duotone as well as your test. As you know, I am very interested in 
selenium-toned prints using color inks. With your experience in 
printing this is going to be very interesting. I am looking forward 
to your report.

Tim
















--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Jerry Olson 
<jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> Tim, I just printed some black and white prints today, using the MIS
> color inkset and the Torchon Profile I had made for the printer. 
(1160) 
> On Torchon, Epson Archival and Eclipse paper, this profile works 
very
> well indeed. No color cross overs, and a very close to neutral 
tone. I
> was absolutely amazed to get consistent black and white prints from 
the
> MIS color inkset. 
> 
> There are a couple ways to go, each offering a tiny different color
> tone. One is printing from an RGB file, and the other from a 
Grayscale
> file, both using the entire set of inks.  The nicest tone was from 
the
> grayscale file. Almost identical to the quality you can get with 
the MIS
> VM inksets on these papers. I'm going to put a print in the south 
window
> tomorrow and see how the changes occur over the next couple months. 
Of
> course you don't have the option for warm and cool prints with the
> grayscale file, but you would with the color file.
> 
> Haven't tried duotone prints with this setup yet, but I will 
tomorrow
> when the light is good.
> 
> 
> Jerry
> 
> tyork@a... wrote:
> > 
> > My ignorance is gonna show here but here goes. I have read all the
> > posts on the list and others and I don't understand. Why not use
> > duotone printing with color inks, like a selenium-type tone? My 
eyes
> > aren't the best but I don't notice any metamerism using this 
method.
> > The prints look fine and if you were in a darkroom most people 
would
> > use a selenium-tone for archival purposes. I may very well be 
missing
> > something and if I am chalk it up to stupidity or inexperience on 
my
> > part.
> > 
> > Tim
> > 
> > 
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> > 
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> > 
> > 
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