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Re: [Digital BW] More quadtone experiences

2001-08-23 by Nicholas Hartmann

>> The prints I've done with Piezo inks have shifted so radically toward warm
>> (a greenish rather than reddish brown this time) that I can't imagine the
>> black-only would be stable.
>
>With any of these ink sets, it is in fact the black that tends to be
>the most stable. The shifting that occurs as a reaction between the
>ink and paper coatings is mostly in the lighter inks.
>I've been using Piezo inks almost from the day they came out in two
>model printers, never had clogging problems. All of my MIS prints and
>new MIS tests I've seen have been greener than Piezo.

Well, there goes my mileage varying again...

-- Nick

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