Digital BW, The Print

----- Original Message -----
From: "Moreno Polloni" <mp@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] MIS FS-FSN blends


> >  I still prefer the
> > Selenium-PiezoTone grays with the FSN black myself. It is a highly
> personal
> > matter of taste and you may have to do several trials to see what you
> like.
>
> Does this combo work with the Piezo driver and canned profiles?
>


Moreno,

It has worked for me on my 1280. The wedges I have printed are not as smooth
as wedges printed with the original Piezo ink or with the FS inks but I am
able to get prints I find satisfying. This is taking negatives from scratch,
not trying to print files optimized for the old ink and then printing with
the new ink. Comparing wedges printed with the Sel-PT grays & PT-K, to
wedges printed with the Sel-PT grays & FSN-K, the use of the FSN-K appears
to give a bit better tone ramp in the low end. This is probably because the
FSN-K is a closer match to the original Piezo-K than the PT-K.

Other people have reported poor results with the PiezoTone inks and the
Piezo driver on the 1280 and other printers. So there is a lot of
uncertainly with this. Give it a try but keep all of this in mind.

I am working with Colorbyte to see if I can get some profiles for the
Sel-PT/FSN-K ink set for IP5 but no success so far.

Martin Wesley

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