"Mark D." wrote:
> Are you gonna use the Peizography software and inks or are you gonna work
> with the MIS Hextone inks?
I hadn't decided yet. Lyson also sell a set of quadtone inks, again, no software.
The Cone stuff is expensive, because of the software. I hear it's good, though.
> My exploration into digital B&W has not been very
> satisfactory. I worked with the MIS inks and both systems really seem more
> ideally suited to produce platinum type prints. Prints on the fine art type
> paper come out good. But when glossy type papers are used, there are lots of
> weird reflections and color shifts (yes, with a dedicated B&W inkset). But
> in terms of making prints that look like fibre base, it doesn't seem like
> it's there.
I haven't seen any samples that have wowed me; I had thought that maybe
it was just because the people making the samples didn't know how to
fully take advantage of the materials yet. I did notice a colour shift
in the midtones of one of the Lyson prints the rep showed me...I thought
I was hallucinating! But I guess the quadtone b&w are just like the
colour inks: each paper reacts completely differently and gives a
different shift to different colours.
Bah.
I've had reasonable results making duotones with deep chocolatey browns
and then printing them just with our colour inkset (after some
tweaking). So far, for regular materials, this seems to be the best
way. I guess I'll have to drop the money on a Cone set to find out for
sure, huh?
-Aaron
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