Re: [Leica] Digital Darkroom -- what's the secret?

[David Monen <dmdent1@pop.mindspring.com>]

I tried several different papers with the Epson 750 but none work as well as
the Epson Photo Paper. It is about  twelve dollars for twenty sheets and it
works great with with my Epson 750. For black and white best results you will
need to replace the color ink cartridge with a special cartridge that has
shades of grey.  It is available but I do not know where....you will have to
leave this printer set up this way as interchanging color inks with it will
not work.  Also you could print in black and white and use just a little color
in RGB resulting in a sepia type of color.

Andrew Moore wrote:

> > >to print archival black and whites on fiber paper.  With the new Epsons
> and
> > >some of the new inks and papers, the black and whites are even possible
> > >digitally and will soon be as archival as darkroom prints.  The results
> are
> > >phenominal with no messy, dangerous chemicals and much more precise
> > >dodging, burning and color control.
>
> Tiny (and all):
>
> What's the magic recipe here?  I've got an Epson Photo Stylus 750 and I
> usually
> print on Epson Heavyweight Matte paper at 720 dpi (I notice no difference
> between
> 720 and 1440 dpi, though the printer supposedly can handle 1440).  The
> resolution
> looks good, but the difference in image quality between my conventional and
> digital
> prints is obvious to me, regardless of whether or I print in B&W or color
> for a B&W
> image.  I haven't printed on glossy paper yet, with one exception, and the
> results
> were so poor I haven't gone back (that particular paper caused the ink to
> "blob"
> together and the results looked very poor).  I'm really liking my
> conventional darkroom
> right now (though the scanning/printing is fantastic for generating
> "contact" sheets).
> Any suggestions?