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Re: [Digital BW] More quadtone experiences -- Black ink

2001-08-24 by Jerry Olson

aHAH!

I will be counting the days when you finally agree that Digital inkjet prints can be better than a darkroom print.  In fact, almost always
are better.

Jerry

Nicholas Hartmann wrote:

> >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.
>
> Not dip and dunk, but I did take a paintbrush and apply both the VM black
> and the double-density black to the same sheet of paper. They looked
> identical, and acceptably black. It turns out (my apologies to MIS and
> anyone else offended by my previously low opinion of their black ink) that
> the MIS VM black actually works quite nicely; I finally figured out last
> night how to match my monitor image properly to the printer output <heel of
> hand slapping forehead>, and now the blacks look fine. I'll still try the
> Generations black when the cartridge arrives.
>
> -- Nick
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