Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. >> >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> >> > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html