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Re: [Digital BW] Jon Cone on the "dyestuff" issue in PiezoTone Black

2002-06-17 by Jerry Olson

Delia, the MIS VM inkset does not fade to warm, if you print with a cool
or cold curve. Not even after a couple months in a south window. Don't
know about the other MIS inks, as I haven't used them.

Jerry




dellaellingson wrote:
> 
> Jeff,
> 
> It is not a reversal. Paul only tested the spare tire.
> 
> It is simple really. The full PiezoTone inkset is not made from the
> black ink anyway, as reported here. That is why. Paul tests only the
> black inks when he did so. The PiezoTone black warmed as he claimed in
> the 50% patch but that 50% of the black does not print with the
> software so it is even irrelevant.
> 
> Paul says he does not intend to mislead but thought that the
> PiezoTones would all be diluted from the black because he has
> knowledge that MIS do it that way. Cone does not do it that way. The
> full PiezoTone set does not fade warm, but the MIS full set does fade
> warm and this even Paul admitted to earlier. And this is what the
> users of it are reporting too. They say in the same time of use the
> MIS inks and the older PiezographyBW inks both would fade to the warm
> but the PiezoTones do not.
> 
> -della
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Jeff Magidson <jeffm@g...>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Jerry Olson wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Todd,
> > >
> > > I have seen the stepwedges of Piezotones black ink that were left
> in a
> > > fade tester
> > > for 100 hours. They faded quite badly. Very sepia.  Do you think
> it
> > > possible for a wedge made with all the colors would prevent the
> black
> > > from fading?
> > >
> >
> > That is what does not add up between the Roark fader test and the
> Cone
> > test. If the Piezotone black warms on its own.. much more then the
> MIS
> > black one the Black only test... how could that be reversed on the
> full
> > quad black image test??
> >
> > -Jeff
> 
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