Digital BW, The Print

It looks like you received inks that were labeled wrong. I suggest 
you do swap tests of each individual ink bottle. The colors and 
density should look like that posted on the MIS site. If not, get in 
touch with them immediately. If they have made a mistake, hopefully 
they will be willing to make appropriate corrections for you, 
including giving you free cartridges to cover you for the portfolio 
you need to complete.

I have made it a practice of always doing swab checks on any ink 
bottle I buy - from any source.

Good luck. Hope things resolve for you fast.

Shilesh Jani

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "charles_bandes" 
<byronbulb@y...> wrote:
> Hi again
> 
> (I am printing with a 1280 on a Mac with MIS VM ink, using mac 
curves
> and the settings listed on the workflow page, nomorecarts CIS)
>  
> So I finally installed my CIS, and now I'm having huge printing
> problems - I was getting good tone and good step wedges when I was
> using carts, but now that I have changed over, all of a sudden my
> shadows have a horrible solarized look. Stepwedges show a dark band
> around 70% when using the warm curves, and a generally stepless 
range
> between around 80-60% using the neutral curve. Basically, something 
is
> wrong with my darker midtones - really really wrong. 
> 
> I have quadruple checked that my ink bottles are in the correct
> positions. I have run purge patterns which also show that the colors
> are coming from the correct locations (the purge patterns from the 
new
> inks seem to be denser across the board than the ones from the carts
> though, for what it's worth)
> 
> So my question - do I have bad ink? Do I need new curves? Am I just
> totally totally screwed? 
> 
> I invested in this system initially to print a large portfolio of
> prints that I need to do over the next month or so, so I definitely
> need to fix this asap, by whatever means needed.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -CB