Digital BW, The Print

on 3/13/2002 8:48 PM, DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com at
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> Message: 17
> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:35:38 -0600
> From: Harrison McClary <harrison@...>
> Subject: Help selecting MIS ink system
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hello Harrison,
>> 
>> I am using the Photo EX with the MIS VM inkset and the MIS CFS
>> inking system on Epson Archival Matte paper. I use Paul Roark's
>> curves for the Epson 1200 with some minor changes. My
>> platform is a PowerMac G4 with serial PCI card as the Photo EX
>> is not a USB printer.I am getting very good results.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the feedback,
> 
> Now one, well two, more questions.
> 
> 1) Would I be better off getting the CFS system or refilling carts?
> I will not printing every day, probably a few times a week at most.
> Refilling the carts looks like a royal PITA, but will the CFS system
> clog if it is not used daily?
> 
> 2) The full spectrum inks look like a nice ink...are they more toward
> the warmish side or are they cold? If cold it it a "white" cold or a
> "blue" cold...I do not mind white cold, but blue cold is not to my
> tastes at all.
> 
> In the "wet" printing I use the Agfa MCC 118 FB paper developed in
> LPD dilution 1:3.
> 
> Thanks for any and all help.
> -- 
> Harrison McClary
> http://www.mcclary.net
I've gone for weeks without printing on my 1200 and 1160 with CIS and
Generations and Cone Piezo inks without problems.  It might take a couple of
cleaning cycles to get going again but that's about it.

Refilling is a royal pain in the _________.
 
-Bruce

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