Digital BW, The Print

At 11:22 PM 11/2/03 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi Alan,
>I do think the comments about ink viscosity are valid. Epson creates
>different drivers for pigs and dyes ?
>
>I have spent a most frustrating weekend trying to get a group of 8x10s
>printed. When I consider the hours days and years spent tweaking
>curves to reduce metamerism, posterization and finding inksets that
>don't band too much and papers that work, I am wondering if it would
>not just be easier to give up and 'smell the hypo' ...
>
>Cheers,
>Alex
>
>

Alex,

My thoughts exactly!  I don't want to count the bottles of ink I've 
tried.  Sure, I've gotten some acceptable work, even work I could not have 
printed in the darkroom. I've had several exhibits of mixed silver and ink 
jet prints where nobody noticed or asked about the difference. But OEM inks 
would have been far cheaper and certainly less time consuming.   In time 
fugitive color and metamerism will certainly become less of a problem if 
not completely solved.

I mentioned in a post a couple weeks ago that I would be showing real 
silver prints and the same prints done with piezo to some master printers. 
The consensus was that they were just different and given their biases 
would choose the silver prints.  We do an annual group portfolio and I 
sense a little unease with the inclusion of non-silver work. So, half a 
league onward the lights out brigade!


AZ

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