Digital BW, The Print

Hello,

I confirm what Ernst is saying. I have a R3000, and Ernst adviced me to 
mix HP Vivera PK with the OCP alternative.
I left the original Epson MK ink cartridge in the printer (later on I 
replaced it with HP Vivera MK).

Paul Roark helped me a lot with the QTR workflow, and I have created 
some profiles.
Merely a combination of these inks with Canson papers (Rag 
Photographique, BFK Rives).

The results are good.

Best regards,

Ben Albu




On 27-12-2014 11:08 AM, Ernst Dinkla ernst.dinkla@... 
[DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] wrote:
> Some years ago I contacted, Robert or Richard, the owner of the Image
> Specialists import company here in The Netherlands, The price of a 1
> liter bottle was something like 50 Euro, way more than I paid for the
> OCP Gloss Optimizer.
> 
> A decade ago I bought Mediastreet and later MIS inks (colors sets) for
> Epson 9000s and a 10000. Together with a friend, gallons usually. Most
> of the time it went right but one time a jar was leaking, another time
> a Light Magenta ink did not correspond to the Light Magenta we had
> before. MIS replaced the last but it is not very comvenient to deal
> with a supplier that far away.
> 
> The OCP Kodak Gloss Optimizer that I bought was for mixing HP Vivera
> PK ink for a HP thermal head printer so all the components are
> compatible with thermal heads. No complaints about their behaviour in
> the printer.
> 
> About two years ago Ben Albu in Belgium wrote about going the
> piëzography route. I advised him to get Vivera pigment ink MK and PK
> and mix it with the OCP alternative for Epson R1800 gloss enhancer. To
> be used on an Epson R3000. He did that and contacted Paul for some
> finer details, Paul has used Vivera PK pigment inks diluted with ink
> medium in Epson printers. It worked well as far as I can recall.
> 
> BTW in my email exchanges Ben mentioned a former MIS ink importer in
> Germany who claimed they had some difficulty with the products or the
> shipping and created their own carbon ink line since. Both Ben and I
> do not have experience with their products. 
> 
> farbenwerk [2]
> Im Winkel 1a
> D-46286 Dorsten
> 
> Telefon: +49 (0) 2369/2495987 [3]
> Telefax: +49 (0) 2369/2495989 [4]
> info@...
> http://www.farbenwerk.com [5]
> 
> Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst
>  
> Dinkla Grafische Techniek
> Quad, piëzografie, giclée
> www.pigment-print.com [6]
> 
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Michael-K michael3442@...
> [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint]
> <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
>>  
>> 
>> Ernst, here's a link to Image Specialists global distributors; I see
>> there's one in The Netherlands. I would drop them an email (or call)
>> and ask about the ink's availability. Might be worth the effort.
>> 
>> http://www.image-specialists.com/about_us_global_dis.aspx [1]
> 
> 
> 
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