Digital BW, The Print

Paul

The inks from MIS arrived yesterday and I've filled the carts for the 3000. Never done that before but it went surprisingly easily. One minor clog that I left overnight and all was well this morning.

The inks print extremely well. In fact I have real trouble in distinguishing them from Piezo. They are perhaps a touch warmer but I was hoping for something much  warmer, more akin to the VM warm. I am pretty sure that I've got the ink mix correct as per your instructions so can you offer advice as to how I can change the colour to something more sepia(ish)

regards
Adrian Joyner
Clevedon
England
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul Roark 
  To: DigitalB&WPrint 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 4:51 PM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Warm FS. A question for Paul


  Adrian,

  >Is it possible to modify the FS mix to give a tone
  >as warm as the MIS VM warm tone. ...

  The long answer:

  Now that the neutral FS is done, coming out with a warmer -- perhaps
  sepia -- version is an obvious next step.  With the densities the same with
  all FS inks, it would then be a matter of mixing the sepia and regular to
  get the tone you like, and you would not have to worry about any density
  changes.

  Do you fill your own carts?  Would some mixing be too much trouble, or do
  you need a "plug & play" solution?

  The short answer:

  Use MIS VM cyan as the FS cyan.  They are very close in density (virtually
  identical), and the VM inkset is the base warm gray ink in the MIS Vm
  inkset.  It's the same pigment as the traditional MIS quads, just at
  different dilutions.

  Mix an FS/VM magenta as follows: 26% VM cyan and 74% MIS clear base.

  Mix an FS/VM yellow as follows:

        Method 1:      Y = 11% VM cyan, remainder clear base;

        Method 2:      Y = 43% FS/VM magenta, remainder clear base.

  Let me know how it goes.

  Paul
  http://www.PaulRoark.com



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