Digital BW, The Print

Mark,
I know you are suspicious, but the Indelible Inks have no/extremely low metamerism, are pigment, stable, good
gamut and work in the Epson 7000.

Harvey Ferdschneider
partner, SKID Photography, NYC



mtucker508 wrote:

>  --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., SKID Photography
> <skid@b...> wrote:
> > I have never heard of a metamerism problem with dye based
> inks...I thought it was strictly a pigment ink
> > problem.
>
> Harvey, Mike,
>
> I'll just throw in my two cents here. I seem to be the king of trying
> (read: fighting) to print B/W with color inks. In my neurotic search
> for long life prints and stability, I just switched back (again) to
> Generations4. It supposedly had "less" metamerism than other
> pigments. In the last day or so, I've had to admit to myself that I
> must switch inks AGAIN; the metamerism is simply FAR too
> much. I have been just "looking the other way" in regard to this,
> but it's just gotta happen when I return from this new trip.
>
> I had been using MIS 6-color "1270-type inks" in my 7000, and
> the contrast and punch is killer, with absolutely NO metamerism
> at all. I could ask nothing more from these inks, short of wanting
> them to be stable in fifty or so years. I just put up my first real
> show, and all the prints (36 big ones) are made with the MIS
> dyes, and they look great on the wall; night or day; tungsten or
> daylight.
>
> Just this morning on the way to coffeemaker, in my underwear, I
> walked past this 24x48" print that's thumbtacked to the wall, near
> the front window. It looked noticeably green; so much that it took
> me back. But last night, as I went to bed, I walked past it and it hit
> me how nice it looked -- warm, sepia, perfect.
>
> I have owned a 7500 (sent it back). I have used other
> Generations inks in my first 7000 (stopped). Now, this with the
> Gen4. Thank God I'm leaving for a few weeks so I can not deal
> with this til January.
>
> The question you (I) have to ask is: what good is a print that lasts
> forever, if you don't even like it today?
>
> -MT
> .





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