Digital BW, The Print

Sorry for any confusion the similar thread subjects may have caused. They are different inks. Our new high density gloss ink at InkjetMall is entirely different than MIS gloss. FYI: We make and manufacture our own inks instead of acting as re-sellers with third party R&D. We keep it in-house tesla-style.

While it is not designed to be good on matte papers (Paul’s thread) it exceeds all other inks on gloss papers (what is was built for) with a dMax of over 2.6 while (at that ink load) having better gloss properties than leading OEMs and all other third party inks based on currently published data.

In my original post I mentioned a 1.6+ L* value. This is entirely different than a dMax. (1.6 dMax is roughly L*17)

This L* of 1.6+ in a gloss photo black ink is un-heard of. In all my years of printmaking for artists I’ve never seen it and now we have it working in our proving grounds. Current Epson promos are talking about 2 to 4 L* for their new inks . . .

It’s such a dark black on gloss prints that we are seeing the opposite problem that most people have with matte printing. The contrast of the print is way beyond the contrast of a calibrated monitor (above 1:300). We are having to figure out ways to build Piezography Pro curves that compensate for a print that is more contrasty than a standard calibrated fine-art monitor!

cheers,
Walker




> On Aug 13, 2016, at 1:07 PM, mccarvill@... [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> I don't see the connection between a Piezography product announcement and Paul’s original post about Arches and glossy carbon.
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