Digital BW, The Print

Paul
I went to your site and poked around a bit. Interesting. I have a  
couple questions.

You state:  "Carbon on cotton" is now my medium of choice for the  
most archival B&W images."

But then I find a page where you pitch Matte BW from Premier which is  
alpha cellulose, and state that you always have a roll on board in  
your 7500. Do you just use this paper/printer for proofing and chump  
work?

Also you have a paper there on the MIS ink set that is dated 11-24-06  
which is in the future :=) Just thought you'd like to know.

Clark

On Nov 16, 2006, at 7:41 AM, Paul Roark wrote:

> David,
>
> >I know you've made great strides in your testing and seem to have
> >settled on MIS EZW in place of yellow.
> >... did you ever try MIS EZN?
>
> I did not try it. The ABW mode is geared to having yellow in the  
> yellow
> position. The EZW, being pure carbon, is like a very low gamut  
> yellow in
> terms of its color. Even with this warm carbon in the Y spot,  
> however, the
> ABW controls are somewhat limited in the extent to which they can  
> reach the
> warm tones. If cool EZN were put in the Y position, I think you  
> would get
> nice cold tones, but you would probably not be able to achieve a  
> neutral
> tone at all. The ABW mode driver puts all the colors -- cmY -- in the
> image, and if Y = EZN all of those would be cool. So, I'd stick to  
> EZW for
> a more useable tonal range from the ABW mode controls.
>
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
>
>
> 



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