Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gee...New York has REALLY gone to your head, Mark. SHAME on you. But now that you're a part of the elite and know that no serious work at all is EVER done on ANYTHING but Epson printers well I guess it's you and B.D. now. Sheesh. On Nov 11, 2007 8:12 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > Ernie > > > > I had one major question regarding a switch to HP or Canon.....I only > > want black ink on my b&w prints. (black pigment ink). It seems as if the > > HP B9180 will let one print b&w without using color inks. Even the Epson > > 2400 uses color inks in doing monochrome and to me that's a minus. > > > > Will let you know how my new HP does as soon as I have 500 discretionary > > dollars to spend. :-) One thing, for all the died in the wool Epson > > users. If I could offer a piece of advice? /*BUY */a chip resetter from > > MIS and when your machine tells you the ink carts are empty, reset them. > > Can't tell you how many times I've printed for a few more days on empty > > cartridges. Epson managed to lose a lawsuit over that little bit of > > consumer screwing. > > > > Walt > > Yes but little work of consequence is being done on non Epson printers and > ESPECAILLY in the black and white area. Results from Non Epson printers > could even be considered "suspect". > I am printing as we speak (I'll move the microphone over there) here the > crunching sound? > And getting better images than I've ever gotten before with any printing > process I've ever done. Using 3800 with Epson UltraChrome color inks > there's > three grays in there. The color inks in there serve you well. > Black and white in the darkroom was never black and white. > It was all about print color. You fine tuned it any number of ways. > The paper and developer and dilution you chose and the time in the soup and > selenium and gold toners. > A "green Print" never stood a chance on a gallery wall. > > My set design teacher taught me black pigment was cheap and unreliable. > The best way to get black was to mix the primary colors. Use real paint. > Black in the world of pigment is "all colors". > > In the world of light by the way its "no colors". > > I've printed with CIS Quadtone MIS inks the UltraChrome Epson pigments I'm > doing now looks about 7 times better. > > HP and Canon printers are for people totally out of the loop in the world > of > serious quality inkjet printing. People who haven't bother to check things > out in the real world of printing and who apparently don't know anybody. > Its not like there's no internet. This stuff can be easily checked out. > > > > > > Mark William Rabiner > markrabiner.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >