Quoting from last week's review in Amateur Photographer:
"On Epson's own media - notably Premium Glossy Photo Paper - greyscale
images ar every neutral. It is commendable that prints made using the 'Best
Photo' setting with either black inkalone or the full colour inkset are
virtually identical. Indeed, excellent results are to be had by using the
colour inks, the Epson Standard colour mode and then decreasing the
saturation in the print driver to its minimum(-25). The resulting prints
(on Epson's glossy paper) are very slightly purple under fluorescent
lighting, but exhibit more than acceptable neutrality under daylight viewing
conditions, with no discernible colour shifts across the tonal range."
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Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Barry B. Bean
Sent: 13 May 2005 16:47
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Epson 1800 - B&W quality?
On Fri, 13 May 2005 10:35:03 -0500, Paul Braun wrote:
>However, I haven't seen any reports on how this thing prints with B&W
>negs. Do I still need to set up a darkroom for that, or can I just
>develop my own film and then scan and print to the Epson with satisfactory
results?
>I just like the idea of being able to print my own color shots without
>all that equipment, chemicals and associated learning curve.
To be honest, I've only done a little bit of B&W printing with my 1800. I
already have a darkroom, so there's nothing new for me to set up.
That said, given the quality of the output in my color work, and the quality
of my initial b&w prints, I'd absolutely plan to scan negs and print
digitally before I'd set up a darkroom.
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Barry B. Bean
Bean & Bean Cotton Company
Peach Orchard, MO
www.beancotton.com
www.beanformissouri.org
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