Digital BW, The Print

I've just got myself up and running with the MIS FS inks on an epson 
740. Thanks to David for the curves for that.

One question and one observation and one request.

Question:

there is a solvent smell from the prints for a bit after printing. I didn't 
think these were solvent based inks. Anyone know what the solvent 
is?

Observation:

When I first acquired the printer, I had to fuss with it quite a bit to 
make it work, including a bit of windex on the pads. The windex 
seemed to clear up misplaced dots, but the problem recurred when I 
installed the new quad carts (I did my own fill, fwiw). After head 
cleaning, realignment, and purging, i was only able to fix the 
misplaced dots with a bit more windex. I'm happy it works, but it's 
not intuitively obvious why.

Request:

I ended up with a bottle of VM ink (MIS mistake), and i'm thinking of 
setting a second 740 with that, if i can get the machine to work. I 
wonder how hard it would be to use Paul's VM curves on a 740. I 
imagine some tweaking would be necessary, but I'm fairly clueless 
about how. (I would of course be grateful if someone else did the 
work!)

-mattMatt Haber
dance, portrait and fashion photography
http://www.matthaber.com