Digital BW, The Print

on 7/31/01 10:52 PM, Jerry Olson wrote:

> Todd,
> 
> The Inks that Paul and I are now using are colored by MIS, so we don't have to
> do any coloring. Thank God! That would be a nightmare! Paul has written 5
> curves from quite brown to icy cold nearly blue. I think he has curves now for
> the 1270, 1160, and 1280, and is about to release the ones for the 7000.

so, is it fair to say that the range of this new set is even greater than my
piezo/gen set. I bet it is cause the base MIS inks are warmer, so he
probably had to extend the "yellow" cooler too, to have neutral in the
middle. I seem to stick with the three most middle curves.

I haven't been pursuing the split toning as much as I thought I would, but I
may go that route again down the road. I approached it differently than
Paul, and got it where I wanted it, but then decided I just liked a more
neutral print better.

> 
> I'm using them in my 1280 now.
> 
> I'm nearly ready to put in another set, but the inks I got from MIS are
> labeled
> slightly different than the first batch, and I'm not certain they are
> identical. I've got a note in to Bob Zeiss, but he hasn't answered yet.
> 
> They must have a LOT of different black inks at MIS. There's dye, Pigment,
> Original, Double Density, and the variable tone black. And now I hear a set of
> "Piezo inks" to replace Cones, at 1/5 th the price.

By this I guess you mean that he mixed the densities of each ink position so
that they match the Piezo's position for position? Thus you can just use
them with the piezo driver? Look out!

What he should do is the same thing, but with a cool flavor, for those who
don't want to stop using the piezo driver and profiles...

It'll be very interesting see how the much anticipated "selenium" piezo inks
will be priced now.

Todd

> I just hope the new batch
> I got is exactly like the first one. The labels are slightly different.
> 
> But it is certainly possible to get great prints without piezo inks!
> 
> You can of course use the original piezo inks with the cold tones added to the
> yellow position. This works great, but is still very expensive.
>