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Re: [Digital BW] mottling & lower Dmax using CFS(CIS?) over time? need input

2002-10-20 by jim hayes

I don't know enough to express an opinion on this.

But wouldn't you want to be preserving the chemical makeup of the ink, 
not adding variables to it? Since it's such a hocus-pocus finely tuned 
suspension  of pigment that is.

I can confirm that, on my system, a CFS not only shows symptoms of k 
ink evaporation through deposits inside bottle and increased clogging, 
but it affects the shadow area of the print, mainly through mottling. 
But you have to do a stepwedge and compare it to one done in past when 
ink was fresh to see it.
 And a big YMMV<g>,
Jim H.




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Jerry Olson 
<jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> Foam, from just a drop in 4 ounces? Maybe half a drop?
> 
> Jerry
> 
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Jerry Olson 
<jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> > > Does anybody have enough chemical experience to say what would
> > happen if
> > > you added a drop or two of photo flo
> > > to each ink bottle?
> > 
> > Foam???
> >

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