Guys, It aint green it's olive and it does change as it ages. An un-mounted print-in-hand can look OK but the really anoying thing about the tone is what it looks like against white mat board - barf! No color of white I have found looks good. Worse, the color temp of the gallery light accentuates the ugly differences in the whites. AZ --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Jerry Olson <jerryolson@r...> wrote: > Do most of you who saw all three of paul's images on his website think > the piezo print is green? This print almost exactly matches my piezo > prints on most papers, in daylight. If there is green in it, it must be > a very small amount, as I see mostly brown. If you are using the > uncoated Somerset velvet paper, the images are quite a bit more neutral > than on most any coated paper. I did see a print from Inkjet mall when I > first began using piezo. It was not a good print. Very flat, muddy, > olive green and very weak black. Not an acceptable print for a > photographer, but it had no dots, and that's why I bought into the piezo > system. I thought I could find a paper that would be more neutral. I > could never get rid of the brown tones, and don't like them, so have > left piezo printing in favor of the MIS inks and Paul's curves. No green > or brown prints Here! > > jerry > > amadiallo2001@y... wrote: > > > > I've been using the Piezo inks for less than 2 months, but have > > made many prints on Somerset Velvet and tested a lot of paper > > samples and not once have I seen anything remotely close to > > the tone of Paul's Piezo ink print. For Piezo ink users, paper > > choice is the determinant of coolness/warmth of an image. I've > > gotten neutral and brown, but never green. You can request a > > printed sample image from InkJetMall. I'd trust a hardcopy over a > > compressed jpeg anyday.
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[Digital BW] Re: Paul Roark's Comparison Print.
2001-11-05 by Alan Zinn
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