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Re: [Digital BW] A pigment or dye question

2006-03-08 by lulalake_1999

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "alanrew42" 
<Alan-Rew@...> wrote:
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Ernst Dinkla
> <E.Dinkla@> wrote:
> >
> > Larry Heath wrote:
> > > http://www.marrutt.com/digital-ink-myths-2.php
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Is there any doubt that the person writing the article above 
> would be saying what is said?
> > > 
> > > Tony Martin is President of Lyson USA.
> > > 
> > > A premier purveyor of dye based inks.
> <snip>
> 
> Larry, I totally agree, that's the most important point about this
> article, the author is bound to be an evangelist for dye based inks
> and whatever papers they have been tested with. Although the article
> is very well written, it should be taken with a large pinch of salt
> (not a grain, as Paul R suggested :-)).
> 
> Having said that, the author omitted to mention metamerism problems
> with pigments, which makes me wonder whether Lyson dyes also suffer
> from this problem.
> 


Not to forget that Lyson has no problem selling a full line of pig 
inks that Tony is now disparaging.

No wonder they caved (no pun intended) and sold out.

Jules

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