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Re: [Digital BW] placing a collective order to MIS/inksupply from Germany

2014-12-27 by Ernst Dinkla

Paul's carbon printing on uncoated rag paper has been tested throughout and meets the highest standards of longevity. Any change in components and method could harm the longevity. On the other hand if we do not create alternatives there are risks too. Imaging Specialists has been bought by another company in Florida and MIS purchases their basic components from IS. I wrote about that some time ago. Paul checked the supply side recently and as I understand it nothing changed so far.

I did see the messages on creating the ink media alternatives but decided that it could be more of a hassle than trying out OCP ink media, especially at the pricing in Germany.


Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst

Dinkla Grafische Techniek
Quad, piëzografie, giclée
www.pigment-print.com

On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 8:01 PM, silverpixel@... [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Hello Ernst,

thank you for your reply.

I'm just a hobby-photographer searching for an alternative to a wet darkroom and the classic fibrebased silverprint way.

So I am fascinated by Pual's approach regarding longevity of the carbon-prints on a watercolor paper.

Do you think that one can adopt Paul's open-source ink-mixing and printing with European products? Are OCP products equal to e.g. MIS eboni (no dye additives, pure carbon)?

Could you sketch a way with european products?

Sorry for any inconvenience, but I don't have the technical know-how regarding inks, so I relied on Paul's know-how until know. And it worked for me from the start without any fuzz.

But maybe we should work together on an european way.

The dificulty for us hobbyists is to get the surfectants. Normally there is no way to order the stuff if you don't own a business. So Paul's 6d base is a great thing, but at least for me impossible to create.

Well, any proposals can help.

Thank you to all so far!

Gerd


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