Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: B&W digital printer
From: eric@jphotog.com
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:17:05 -0600 (CST)
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Hi Lea,

There are web sites out there dedicated to such topics. I have a few
friends who use theEpson 2200 including a very prominent art photographer back East. I can
give them youremial address if you'd like and see if they come up with something.

> Eric,
>
> I'm open to suggestions on my technique...I'm using Photoshop 7,
> shooting with a Canon 10D, converting via channels and still getting a
> nasty color cast...leaning towards either blue or green. I'm using
> Epson's inks on Ilford lustre paper.
>
> Epson touts the 2200 as a photographer's printer and indeed as a black
> and white photo printer so one would think the inks made to go in it
> would be the very ones with which to produce excellent black and white
> work. I'm not finding that to be the case but would certainly be open
> to learning how to get better results with this machine.
>
> Lea
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <eric@jphotog.com>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 10:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: B&W digital printer
>
>
>> If that's your experience with the Epson, then maybe you need to look
> at
>> your technique?That being said, I do hear that one of the newest HP
> 7960 is really good
>> with black and white.But there are black and white insets for the
> 2200, and they're not hard to
>> find with Google.
>> > What puzzles me is why the heck Epson doesn't come out with and all
>> > gray/black ink set for the 2200....the color cast this machine
> produces
>> > is pretty awful unless you want to output everything as a sepia
>> > tint...which works for some clients but not for all of them. I'll be
>> > seriously looking at the HP in the next few weeks.
>>
>>
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