Digital BW, The Print

Small gamut made beautiful tone prints, but has a lot of metamerism.
Also not available in bulk, and the price of cartridges is outrageous.
(IMHP). Try 45 Blue in photoshop as  a started point, in a color balance
adjustment layer.

Jerry




sturos@... wrote:
> 
> Good Morning All;
> 
> I was at the PhotoExpo in NY last week specifically to check out
> alternate inks for b/w printing.
> 
> Have had great disappointments with the Cone Piezography system
> especially regards clogging problems and incompatibility with anything
> other than a really flat matte paper.
> 
> Have e-mailed/spoken with the MIS people and they at least (unlike
> Cone's group) were very upfront about the limitations of using their
> inks with the paper of my choosing (Epson's Premium Luster, or
> Semi-Gloss are both lovely, and most like the Ilford Pearl surface
> I've been using for years...)
> 
> Given the total failure of piezography I've taken to printing b/w
> using the color inkset on an Epson 1270; not a bad way to go, but far
> from perfect.
> 
> In any event, I had a long talk with, and eventually ordered supplies
> from the Lyson folks. They have started to sell a Small Gamut inkset;
> it differs from their quad black inkset in that it allows for some
> tonal adjustments, allowing for similar effects to printing on
> portriga rapid, or selenium toning prints for instance.
> Moreover, they claim it's archival, and sell a nice semi-gloss paper
> (they call it Satin), is made by Hahnemule (sic) and which they claim
> is fully compatible.
> 
> Anybody out there have any experience using this system???
> After a full year of frustration in my attempts to standardize b/w
> inkjet printing, reading the forums, talking to others I'm convinced
> that using a system, ie; paper and ink from the same manufacturere is
> the way to go...Though most people seem to be sold on either Cone or
> MIS inks it doesn't really work for me...
> 
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