Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: B&W digital printer
From: "lea" <lea@whinydogpress.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 18:04:43 -0600
References: <08f201c3c8b1$9327ede0$ce771a41@leaetrg64tja2w> <54648.12.225.62.37.1072221425.squirrel@www.jphotog.com>

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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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In reply to: Message from "lea" <lea@whinydogpress.com> (Re: [Leica] OT: B&W digital printer)
Message from eric@jphotog.com (Re: [Leica] OT: B&W digital printer)