Digital BW, The Print

Hi Anthony,
 
>> Those are some interesting pictures. What printer(s)
>> and inks are you using? Software?
> 
> Thanks.  These are direct scans from B&W film, not scans of prints.

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that they were scans of prints, I realize that
they are scans of negatives. I just ran the questions together.

I have
> yet to acquire a way of making nice B&W prints, for reasons of budget and
> ignorance.

Ah, I see. I was curious as you are a prodigious poster, but I couldn't
recall what digital B/W printing method you were using.

Thanks,

Jon

Jon writes:

> Ah, I see. I was curious as you are a prodigious
> poster, but I couldn't recall what digital B/W
> printing method you were using.

None, yet.  I shoot both black and white and color, but while I've found
solutions for nice color prints (the 2000P does fairly well on color, but
now I get cheaper and better results by taking the files to a lab with a
Frontier on a CF card), I have no solutions for B&W prints.  Lab prints of
B&W are either horrendously expensive or of very poor quality (i.e., B&W
printed on color paper, often with some sort of color cast), and the 2000P
prints B&W quite poorly also, usually with a color cast and significant
metamerism.

Thus my interest here is in figuring out how I can print B&W as easily as I
print color.  I have no money at the moment, so it is mostly thought
experiments, but once I have some money I've been thinking of getting a
third printer that I can dedicate to black and white, and printing with
that.