Digital BW, The Print

I have had good luck with Legion Photo Matte, Photo Rag, and Museo.  
Concorde Rag and EAM have been okay.  What I have seen is not so much 
a break in the tones, but very flat mid and three quarter tones.

Seth

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "mfp90021" <mfp90021@y...> 
wrote:
> > > It 
> > > appears to be more of a profile issue than an ink issue, as 
> some
> > > papers seem to have near perfect transitions.
> 
> Which ones?  I have been using Photo Rag, Concorde Rag and 
> EAM on which it happens on all three.  I was thinking that it was 
> happening due to the increased black density of the new ink and 
> the clipping we are seeing is the dither pattern of the black ink.  
> This combined with midtone ink not being able to print dark 
> enough.  I hope that new profiles could fix this.
> 
>  
> > I am hoping that Jon and Co. are really looking at this and 
> building new
> > profiles for the inks.  A big part of the value of the system are 
> the
> > profiles!
> 
> Do you know if this issue has been brought up to Cone & Co.?   
> Is it something they are working on?  Perhaps if we can get 
> enough people to raise this issue to him, he could fix it.  
> 
> I hate to say it but the prints with the new ink are unacceptable.  
> They look like they have been created digitally.  What to do now?  
> Well at least I know that it's not just me; I guess it's time to 
call 
> inkjetmall.
> 
> -Michael
> www.michaelfaye.com