Digital BW, The Print

raising the bottles some helps but i just over did it and then went to bed!
the cheapest I can get PR for is here www.silverprint.co.uk

J
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Wesley" <mwesley250@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Jon Cone on New Blacks...


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Julian Thomas" <julianthomas@...>
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 1:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Jon Cone on New Blacks...
>
>
> >
> > >
> > > Overall I think they get bashed way too hard many times but they
> certainly
> > > are not without fault either.
> > >
> >  I agree with you Martin. IJM push the boundaries and make everyone else
> > catch up. Portfolio black sounds good to me. Now if they only sold it in
> > pint bottles for about 50-60usd... maybe I'll wait for the MIS version -
> BTW
> > struggling with my printers I did some tests with raised bottles - came
> back
> > to find the bottles half empty - my first thought was 'thank god that
> wasn't
> > piezo!'
> >
> Julian,
>
> Their prices are high but they are down about 30% over this time last
year.
> Nothing like some competition. I get hungry enough for a certain look that
I
> am willing to pay a premium to get it. Besides I find I am spending much
> more on Photo Rag than on ink. Since you are closer to the manufacturer do
> you make out better on that end? Rock bottom prince here for 13"x19"
sheets
> of 308 gsm is just under $4.00.
>
> You aren't the first to try raising the bottles with the same results.
Ouch!
> I assume all that ink wound up in the bottom of your printer. If you look
at
> the lowest ink level in the cartridge portion of the CIS it is actually
> below the top of the ink bottles. I seem to recall that someone induced a
> siphoning action just be getting the ink level in the bottles too high.
>
> Martin Wesley
>
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