Digital BW, The Print

Thanks Walter,

I had feeling that what you and others are doing is fine indeed. What inksets 
are you blending for a nice neutral? I knew Barbara Crane years ago. Tell her 
hi from John Dean. I'm sure she doesn't remember me as I was a student at U. 
Of Arizona working at the Center when she was there working on her 
Guggenheim. We used to hang out at Vicki Ragan's house. Tell here Vicki's 
little boy Eddie is going to be a famous jazz sax player and he is only 15.

Yes, Barbara has subtantial blacks in her work, and not only that she really 
knows  monochrome printmaking inside out. So if its good enough for the 
North Portal series its good enough for me.

Best to Chicago,

John
www.deanimaging.com



-- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Walker Blackwell" <
lists@g...> wrote:
> 
> Yes. We are running Piezography "quadtone" ink-sets on a 9600 with 
StudioPrint 
> linearizing with the Eye One. This is a truly beautiful system. I have had zero 
problems so 
> far along the lines of linearization, shadow detail, etc.  The dither is 
absolutely astounding 
> because of the nozzle count. StudioPrint lets you "paper flush" one channel 
at a time. This 
> lets me experiment with many different inks in many different slots without 
wasting 7 
> channels worth every time I want to change one out. (it also lets me switch 
from matte 
> black to photo black to portfolio black in 30 minutes on our color 9600).
> 
> I would highly suggest this bit of software and these inks if you have the 
funds.
> 
> ps: Portfolio black in the Matte black slot is sweet. I tried it the other day on 
Barbara 
> Crane's prints. If you mess with your ink-limit/linearization you can get a 
maximum black 
> equal to the un-profiled quadtone environments (1.72) instead of the normal 
1.62(ish) 
> dmax of matte black. This is HPR308.  take care, Walker Blackwell