Re: [Digital BW] Question Regarding MIS VT-Ink/Roark Workflow
2001-08-23 by Paul Roark
... Jerry, I think this could be a problem in this context. As I understand it the originals are old photos. They often have some color, including yellowing,
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Re: [Digital BW] Brightness/Whiteness of Papers was: Hahnemuhle Photo Rag
2001-08-23 by Martin Wesley
Robert, I have a couple of questions on the optical brightening agents (OBA). I understand that the ability to fluoresce is lost with exposure to light and
inks for the 7000 & Cone RIP
2001-08-23 by sherer@urd.umass.edu
Perhaps someone has some suggestions for my question: I have been printing with an Epson 7000, piezo/bw inks, and the Cone RIP. I m very pleased with the
Re: [Digital BW] More quadtone experiences -- Black ink
2001-08-23 by Todd Flashner
... Superior to Brett Weston s prints? Todd
Re: Lightjet Test Update
2001-08-23 by Martin Wesley
Phil, The results so far are very impressive. While I see the difference between the prints from 2nd digital neg and the original, the gap seems pretty narrow
Re: Archivality of MIS Quads & V Quads
2001-08-23 by Tyler Boley
... wrote: Paul, I m not trying to come off as consistantly argumentative. I m just interested in every aspect of these issues presented,
Re: [Digital BW] More quadtone experiences -- Black ink
2001-08-23 by Nicholas Hartmann
... Our opinions on digital vs. silver obviously differ fundamentally. I am interested in digital printing not because I think it can outdo or even equal
Re: [Digital BW] More quadtone experiences -- Black ink
2001-08-23 by Nicholas Hartmann
... Thanks, Jerry. I ve heard opinions that the Generations beta is the blackest of the bunch, but I haven t tested it yet. The Epson black is certainly good,
Re: [Digital BW] Gamma
2001-08-23 by Todd Flashner
BTW, when I wrote this below, I was just thinking of general usage, but if a workflow recommends another space, like Paul uses sRGB, by all means go with that.
Re: [Digital BW] Piezo Driver and MIS FS inks, Curve for Piezo files
2001-08-23 by Nicholas Hartmann
... Bernd - Does this mean that you are successfully using the MIS Full Spectrum inks to export images through the Piezography BW driver? If so, are you
Different Gammas, Mac & PC
2001-08-23 by SKID Photography
... From what I understand from the colorsync list (and my understanding could be wrong), the 2 different monitor Gammas on the 2 different systems (Mac & PC)
Piezo Driver and MIS FS inks, Curve for Piezo files
2001-08-23 by Ruhrfoto/Bernd L.
For those of us, who have been Piezographers so far and have saved their images for straight piezo prints - and now want to print MIS Full Spectrum Inks
Re: [Digital BW] More quadtone experiences -- Black ink
2001-08-23 by Jerry Olson
Nick, I m about as picky a person as you will ever see. I think that digital prints are superior in every way to darkroom prints. They are sharper, the shadow
Re: [Digital BW] Question Regarding MIS VT-Ink/Roark Workflow
2001-08-23 by Jerry Olson
It doesn t matter WHEN you convert to rgb, the file just has to in that format when you print it. You don t have to convert it first to grayscale! Jerry
Re: [Digital BW] Archivality of MIS Quads & V Quads
2001-08-23 by Jerry Olson
RIT gives most MIS inks 50 - 75 years on acid free 100 percent cotton papers.
Re: [Digital BW] More quadtone experiences -- Black ink
2001-08-23 by Jerry Olson
Nick, the blacks appear to me, to be in this order, from blackest to least black, but they are very close. No pigmented black is as deep as Epson s. 1 Epson,
Re: [Digital BW] More quadtone experiences
2001-08-23 by Jerry Olson
I think they are in order from most to least, but be sure you wait til someone else answers that knows for certain. Jerry
Re: [Digital BW] More quadtone experiences -- Black ink
2001-08-23 by Todd Flashner
... Jeez guys, I m just sticking a couple of work prints in an envelope, Don t expect me to defend the process for us all. I don t even like my prints that
Re: [Digital BW] Archivality of MIS Quads & V Quads
2001-08-23 by ldmr@cruzio.com
Thanks for the long reply. I guess my problem arises from confusing the results of color tests with the quad (pigment-based) inks. Chris ... their ...
[Digital BW] Archivality of MIS Quads & V Quads
2001-08-23 by Paul Roark
Chris, ... MIS has posted their RIT test results. The MIS Archival Color inkset was rated for a display life of at least 50 years. (I really don t know how
Re: Green Tone was More quadtone experiences
2001-08-23 by Tyler Boley
... wrote: Tyler, I know you have seen a lot more of this stuff than I have, but the small collection of Piezo and MIS VM prints I have show the
Re: [Digital BW] More quadtone experiences -- Black ink
2001-08-23 by Nicholas Hartmann
... Martin - You may very well be right. I think my problem is that while every approach to inkjet output of photographs that I ve tried so far -- black-only,
Re: Lightjets and varnish, was some guy's workflow
2001-08-23 by Tyler Boley
... OK, I dug it out to take a look so I can stop talking out of my butt. It was printed with a Durst Lambda 130, the file is 200 ppi (I think I was told the
Re: [Digital BW] More quadtone experiences -- Black ink
2001-08-23 by Julian Thomas
All the posts about differences in systems highlight the fact that evaluating this stuff is really difficult. I ve got my system to the stage that with
Lightjet Test Update
2001-08-23 by Phil Bard
Hello everyone, On my website I have posted the results of the second round of Lightjet negs I recently received from A&I Digital (link at bottom). For those
Inkjet Permanence Test Procedures from Kodak
2001-08-23 by Martin Wesley
George DeWolfe sent me the link below. It is a paper from Kodak R&D discussing the issues around proper testing of inkjet image permanence. This may not be of
Re: [Digital BW] More quadtone experiences -- Black ink
2001-08-23 by Martin Wesley
... wrote: (snip) ... it in ... process. If ... procedure and ... Nick, I have a few of Todd s prints. If you aren t happy with them, then I
Re: [Digital BW] More quadtone experiences -- Black ink
2001-08-23 by Todd Flashner
... My guess is that you are getting too much separation in your deep tones, combined with the limits of Dmax on matte papers. I recommend you try adding a
Ink permanence research thesis uploaded
2001-08-23 by Antonis Ricos
Jim Hayes discovered this pdf of a thesis for the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne. I uploaded a 72dpi version of it, along with Jim s synopsis as a
Question Regarding MIS VT-Ink/Roark Workflow
2001-08-23 by Howard Averbach
Question for users of the MIS Variable-Tone inksets and Paul Roark s adjustment curves: One of the steps outlined by Paul and others on this list is convert
Re: Lightjets and varnish, was some guy's workflow
2001-08-23 by Martin Wesley
... wrote: (snip) ... be ... tone. Do you recall the name of the material? Also I would expect a ditner patter with the LightJets which I believe print at 300
Green Tone was More quadtone experiences
2001-08-23 by Martin Wesley
Tyler, I know you have seen a lot more of this stuff than I have, but the small collection of Piezo and MIS VM prints I have show the reverse. There is a green
Archivality of MIS Quads & V Quads
2001-08-23 by ldmr@cruzio.com
Looking through the MIS Web site, I m having a hard time getting a clear idea of how long I can reasonably expect prints made with their quadtone and variable
RE: [Digital BW] Re: Lightjets and varnish, was some guy's workflow
2001-08-23 by Nij
... Well, I had a look (having missed any previous posts with the link) - lovely images. It s _OK_ to have friends Tyler! :) Nij
Re: Using Epson Driver and Cone Inks
2001-08-23 by Martin Wesley
Billie, Photoshop 6 will open Adobe Acrobat PDF files as raster images. You could do your page layout there. Perhaps you can export the Pagemaker files to
Re: [Digital BW] More quadtone experiences -- Black ink
2001-08-23 by Nicholas Hartmann
... Paul - Thanks for the kind offer, but having you look at a scan of a step wedge doesn t really address the problem, which is that _I_ don t like what the
Re: [Digital BW] Gamma
2001-08-23 by Todd Flashner
... There is monitor gamma, and there is working space gamma. The two are independent and don t need to relate. The Mac 1.8 convention is for monitor gamma.
Re: [Digital BW] More quadtone experiences
2001-08-23 by Todd Flashner
... Nick, Send me your mailing address and I ll send you a print from my system. If you don t think it s up to snuff, case closed, if you like it than you
RE: [Digital BW] Piezo vs MIS FS again
2001-08-23 by Jason DeFontes
Bernd, If you have a good match between monitor and print for the straight Piezo setup you probably followed the instructions in the Piezo manual for
Re: [Digital BW] More quadtone experiences -- Black ink
2001-08-23 by Paul Roark
Nick, ... Could you scan and e-mail to me a 21-step test file print done with the vm inkset/workflow so that I can see what the problem looks like with you
Re: [Digital BW] More quadtone experiences
2001-08-23 by Nicholas Hartmann
... Jerry - That s kind of what I had gathered. I do have some Legion Photo Matte on the way (Media Street happily took my credit card number but neglected to
Re: [Digital BW] More quadtone experiences
2001-08-23 by Jerry Olson
Epson Archival matte is nicer/whiter/thicker/better surface than Epson Heavyweight. Photo Legion s Photo Matte is better/whiter/better blacks/than either of
Re: [Digital BW] Re: More quadtone experiences
2001-08-23 by Jerry Olson
If you use 1.8 gamma on a mac, it looks darker on a PC monitor. You can check out what it would look like on a PC clone under photshops View, Proof Setup
Re: [Digital BW] More quadtone experiences
2001-08-23 by wparsons@evergreen-funds.com
Jerry, Did you mean Legion Photo Matte or Epson P M? Bill From Jerry Olson, ... Photo Matte is nicer yet.
Re: [Digital BW] More quadtone experiences
2001-08-23 by Jerry Olson
Nick, I better explain that last statement. I just this morning made a print on the Heavyweight matte paper with the MIS hextone inks, and everything printed
Re: [Digital BW] More quadtone experiences
2001-08-23 by Nicholas Hartmann
... Well, there goes my mileage varying again... -- Nick NICHOLAS HARTMANN +1 (414) 271-4890 611 N. Broadway, Suite 509
Re: Lightjets and varnish, was some guy's workflow
2001-08-23 by Tyler Boley
... Burkholder ... The stuff I saw didn t appear to be duratrans, which usually has a white but translucent base. This stuff was a clear film base, the grain
Re: [Digital BW] Re: Saphir 2/photoshop help?
2001-08-23 by Brian Mikiten
Thanks! I ve learned the Lino software to the point where I can operate it with some skills but am certainly not an expert. My real problem has to do with
Re: [Digital BW] More quadtone experiences
2001-08-23 by Jerry Olson
Nick, Epson Heavyweight Matte is ok, but the Archival Matte is a nicer paper. Photo Matte is nicer yet. I would urge you to get better paper, through the many
Re: [Digital BW] Re: More quadtone experiences
2001-08-23 by Brian Mikiten
Can someone give a good explanation of why a 2.2 gamma is standard on a PC but a 1.8 on a mac? I m doing B/W work on a G4/PS/GF/1160/Piezo machine and trying