Printing black and white on fine art media with the Epson P700 (and P900) pigment ink printer.

Testing B&W print linearity with fine art media and making a 13" x 19" A3+ photo print. Using the Advanced B&W (ABW) print mode for print neutrality and evenness .

Looks at the basics of editing B&W photos for print with masked adjustment curves, and the importance of appreciating the print as the end result.

00:00 Start
00:46 Paper choice
01:30 Using the driver ABW mode
03:08 Using a test image to see how the paper performs
03:53 Checking printer quality settings
05:37 Using ABW in Epson Print Layout
06:24 Choosing 'standard' quality
10:34 Printing the photo
10:58 Opening the image in EPL
12:10 Loading the printer
14:57 Looking at the print
15:22 How was the original image produced
18:22 Memories of the darkroom
19:00 A second image to print
20:12 Key thoughts on the printing process

For much more about P700/900 see the written B&W overview, which includes more technical informations and links to other articles and videos.
https://www.northlight-images.co.uk/black-and-white-printing-with-the-p700/

All of Keith's hundreds of B&W related articles, reviews and videos can be found at
https://www.northlight-images.co.uk/digital-black-and-white-photography/