Digital BW, The Print

I did a previous post where I learned that what I should have asked is 

"how does one go about getting an awesome B&W print that is 100% 
neutral by all measures on the Epson R2400."

If you currently do a lot of printing on an Epson R2400, then I would 
love to hear your opinion as to what you think is crutial in obtaining 
the aforementioned print attributes.

this should probably be a poll to all R2400 users because I'm certain 
that each user has a diferent opinion.  But it would be very 
interesting to see which specific papers rank among the top 3 in this 
yahoo group and which specific inks rank in the top 3.  

Please take the above questions at face value and make whatever 
assumptions you need to make.  In other words, provide your answer 
without asking a question before you answer.

Hello Eddie,

>"how does one go about getting an awesome B&W print that is 100% 
>neutral by all measures on the Epson R2400."

>If you currently do a lot of printing on an Epson R2400, then I 
>would love to hear your opinion as to what you think is crutial in 
>obtaining the aforementioned print attributes.


I'll take a stab at this and share my experiences, with the preface
that neutral to me means that black is black, not brown, pink, green,
or blue.  Every time I thought I had found a neutral tone, my
happiness was destroyed as soon as I put the print next to another one
with a different tone.  Suddenly what I thought was neutral looked a
bit warm or cool or green or something.  And of course any ABW setting
will look different on different papers.

That said, one of my favorite settings is 2h,8v on ABW.  It makes a
really pretty tone that looks neutral by itself and a tad warmish if
next to something that's blue-ish cold.  

Basically you have to experiment and find what you like.

I hope this helps
 

Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm