Digital BW, The Print

Richard,

Read Paul Roark's description (elsewhere in this forum) of the FS-N 
inks, with color densitometric data. They are definitely not too 
blue. These inks are closer to dead-on neutral than any other ink 
sets I have used. They are certainly cooler than the regular FS, the 
orginal Piezo, and the new PiezoTone Warm Neutral (a contadiction in 
terms? How can something be "warm neutral"? It is either warm or it 
is neutral). It seems like many people have their own visual 
definition of "neutral". It is therefore all a matter of preference.

Truth is, you have to actually see the same image printed with the 
various inks to find your own personal preference. It is a good idea 
to participate in print exchanges to see results from various 
inks/work flows for yourself. In doing so, I have found that many 
comments made for a  number of ink/paper/workflow do not exactly 
match up to the actual prints.

This may seem daunting. But with the right attitude, it is a lot of 
fun.

Good luck.

Shilesh

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Richard Sintchak 
<richard@c...> wrote:
> Some input and suggestions from those who have more experience than
> this newbie would be appreciated:
> 
> I have only started about a month ago in digital quadtone printing
> using an 1160 and MIS FS carts. After a few hiccups I've got things
> going pretty well and I like my prints so far. A couple of weeks 
ago I
> took advantage of the sale at inkjetgoodies and got myself 4oz.
> bottles of the MIS FS in anticipation of cleaning out and setting 
up a
> used Niagara CIS I have. Since then I decided to just get a new CIS
> and bought a CFS from MIS. Lately, starting to think the MIS FS is a
> little bit warm, I bought this MIS CFS with their FS-N inks (4 oz.).
> 
> So now I have a new MIS CFS that I still have not hooked up (my last
> MIS FS carts still not empty) but I'm now having a quandary. After
> reading some of the reviews of the new PiezoTone Selinium inks and
> seeing how people are comparing them to other ink some mentioned 
that
> perhaps the MIS FS-N ink is a little too blue. Now I usually prefer
> slightly warmer to too blue but I bought the MIS FS-N inks thinking
> they were neutral, not blue. Can anyone comment a bit on this? I
> imagine I'll want to try the Cone selenium inks some time down the
> road but as of now having these two sets of inks already that will 
be
> much later.
> 
> And since I now have two sets of new 4 oz. bottles (one FS, one FS-
N)
> should I even consider perhaps doing some mixing of the two to get a
> better balance of too warm and too blue? Or since I'm a newbie 
maybe I
> should just use the MIS FS-N straight to see what I personally think
> of it's tone, then I'll know more of the characteristics of the FS 
vs.
> the FS-N and perhaps get fancy later?  Anyone ever try mixing these
> two?
> 
> Any thoughts or suggestions welcomed.  Thanks.
> 
> Best regards,
>  Richard  
> 
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