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[Digital BW] Re: Paul Roark's Comparison Print.

2001-11-05 by Alan Zinn

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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