jaw dropping black and white images

i have been out of touch since last week, (internet issues, technical crap is so interesting )

Any way last fri. at one of the local camera stores they had a demo of the new epson 7900 printer and so i thought i would drop in while in the area and see what was going on.

i literally stopped dead in my tracks when i watched a color print, converted in the printer as a black and white image. It was amazingly wonderful . Of course, they started out with a nicely exposed color image and with a click of the software within the printer it changed into a terrific looking neutral black and white image.

i believe it is Don, who has a tag line, it is amazing what the printers can do these days.

If you want to truly knock your socks off you should find a well printed example using the Piezography K7 inks. Now *that* is a B&W print.

i will certainly keep my eye out, is that any printer with the K7 inks?

ann said:

i will certainly keep my eye out, is that any printer with the K7 inks?

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Ann John Dean of Dean Imaging here in Atlanta prints with Cone Piezography inks. Perhaps you can contact him and go by and see his work sometime. It's really nice.

Have you been by the Walter C. Carlos museum at Emory and looked at the prints from the Egyptian exbidition exhibit. They were all printed by John Dean. I keep meaning to go by myself, I've heard the prints are stunning.

The B&W prints from an Epson 7900 are really impressive but so are the B&W prints from my 3800. If you loupe the prints made from both the 7900 has a finer dither.

Don

ann said:

i will certainly keep my eye out, is that any printer with the K7 inks?

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Cone only supplies the K6/K7 inks for the Epson printers currently. Scroll down the list from the link and you'll see the latest inks about half way down.

John Dean in Atlanta is an acknowledged master printer with the Piezography systems. So is Amadou Diallo in NYC, and Tyler Boley in Seattle to name just a few.

You can always send an image off to Cone and have the master himself (it's his invention after all) print some sample prints for you so you can see your own image with Piezography.

The HP, Epson, and Canon printers do a good job with B&W, I'm not saying they don't. But many serious B&W people think the Piezography system is another step up from them. If you want the very best and you're willing to put up with the restrictions (like the lack of non-matte substrates (for now), and you have to dedicate a printer to B&W), it's really pretty good!

I've held some of Tyler Boley's personal work in my hands, printed on matte paper with the K7 selenium MPS inks; I've never seen prints that good before. It's beyond anything I've seen from a darkroom -- smoother than platinum, sharper than silver, with better highlight *and* shadow detail both than either. You have to see it to believe it; words can't begin to do it justice.

And really, you shouldn't believe me. You should definitely see it for yourself and make your own judgements. Just because it knocks my socks off doesn't mean anyone else will be similarly effected. Because of course YMMV.

thanks for the tip don, i will have to go over to emory and see them for myself.

i will have to keep in mind john dean.

i don't know if i am ready to dedicate a printer to black and white.

last year i was seriously thinking of setting up a system with a 1400 and the piezo inks as i had talked to jon , but decided i didn't want a CIS and wasn't printing enough to warrant the expensive.

that idea may change with the 3800, as the 7900 is way to much printer, not only in cost but physical size for my working space.

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