Digital BW, The Print

Have you done a dip and dunk test with a small strip of paper with the VM black ink? I find it to be the blackest of all pigmented inks.
Possibly you have a mislabeled bottle.

Jerry

Nicholas Hartmann wrote:

> >Nick, the blacks appear to me, to be in this order, from blackest to least
> >black, but they are very close.  No pigmented black is as deep as
> >Epson's.
> >
> >1 Epson, Deepest
> >2 MIS Variable tone VM Black
> >3 Beta black/Enhanced black from Generations/Piezo Black:  Beta and
> >Enhanced are the same ink, different names.
> >4 MIS Double Density Black/Standard MIS Black
>
> Thanks, Jerry. I've heard opinions that the Generations beta is the
> blackest of the bunch, but I haven't tested it yet. The Epson black is
> certainly good, but fading/shifting then becomes a concern. I find the MIS
> VM black to be quite weak.
>
> And thanks for the tip on the Epson printer profiles: most at the top
> through least at the bottom certainly seems logical...
>
> -- Nick
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