Digital BW, The Print

>[snip]
>Shilesh,
>
>I really am beginning to wonder if the PT-K and the Gen-K are not the same
>ink. What you describe in your dilution test is exactly what I saw in the
>sink after cleaned up the syringes I used to take samples from the MIS-VM K
>and PT-K bottles. The VM-K is obviously a very neutral black but the PT-K
>broke up into a warm/purple just as you describe.
>
>Also check out Paul's fade testing of the Gen and Indelible blacks in
>folder:
>
>Files > Ink Sets > MIS
>
>and then take a look at his fade test of the PT-K, PzoTone-VM-FS-K-100 hr
>fade test.jpg ,
>in folder:
>
>Files > Ink Sets > PiezoTones > PiezoTone vs MIS-FS
>
>Is Generations making the PT inks for Jon?
>
>[snip]
>
>Martin Wesley


I don't think MediaStreet makes any inks at all, not even its own 
Generations. But Nation-Wide Plastics Company, Inc., from which Norm 
Levy "acquired" (not sure what exactly that means) MediaStreet, might 
be supplying both Jon with inks to call "Piezo" and Norm with inks to 
call "Generations". And without Nation-Wide Plastics, necessarily, 
making either one of them. But someone somewhere must actually be 
adding that dyestuff to our pigments ... .

I blame Jerry Olson for all this. He's the one who starting insisting 
on a black Black, way back when Lyson was king and before Robert 
Morrison started embarrassing everyone by measuring their dMax. 8)

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