Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric, I'd love that...please send my email along to them and maybe they can give me some guidance. Much appreciated, Lea - ----- Original Message ----- From: <eric@jphotog.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 5:17 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: B&W digital printer > 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 > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html