[Leica] Paper for b&w printing - for Scott G

[leica at jayburleson.com (Jay Burleson)]

Scott, if you are starting with a new printer, that has never had ink in 
it, then a conversion to b&w only inks is a piece of cake.
Buy the refillable cartridges, fill with ink, and install.
A little more involved if you have to purge the color inks. 
(http://www.piezography.com/PiezoPress/technical-support/)
I bought a used R3000 because it was a good deal and came set up with 
the b&w K7 inks. 
(http://shopping.netsuite.com/s.nl/c.362672/sc.15/category.54255/.f)
Otherwise, I'd have probably bought a 3880, but never researched it.
The Piezography carbon inks use Quadtone RIP, 
(http://www.quadtonerip.com/html/QTRoverview.html) and Piezography 
provides many curves for popular papers.
I am more than happy with the image quality. The results on matte paper 
are as good as what I was able to get from the wet darkroom; and I 
prided myself on the quality of my darkroom printing ability.
I can't wait to try printing on some exhibition type papers.

Jay

On 10/30/2013 11:36 AM, Scott Gregory wrote:
> Jay I would be interested to know your thoughts concerning quality of the 
> 3000 Epson and the results you are achieving with your mono inks.
> Is there much conversion that needs to happen to the printer to get it 
> going mono?
> Also I'm looking to replace my old 2200 Epson and I've been using the 
> Image Print Rip with the 2200.
> Last I checked with Image Print in Florida they suggested going with the 
> 3880 since it was more of a professional build than the 3000 and which 
> they told me was giving some issues early on. Perhaps those issues have 
> been corrected though? Anyway I'd rather spend in the area of the 3000's 
> price range for what I do. And I'm not really too keen on shelling out the 
> amount of $$$ Image Print wants for a Rip these days, even though it is a 
> good product. So part of my question is are you printing your Leica black 
> and white photos on the 3000 using the paper profiles from the 
> manufacturer or are you in fact using a Rip?
> Thanks for your thoughts!
>
> Scott
>
>> On Oct 29, 2013, at 10:01 PM, Jay Burleson <leica at jayburleson.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> I've got my R3000 with Piezography b&w ink up and printing beautiful 
>> Monochrom images (thanks Dave!).
>> I dislike matte finish paper, and also the high gloss RC paper look.
>> I've a bunch of stuff to print out by Christmas.
>> Looking for input on a general purpose (NOT exhibition weight or cost) 
>> type of paper, that looks like air dried glossy fiber papers from the wet 
>> darkroom days.
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thank you kindly,

-- 
Jay,

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