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Re: [Digital BW] Mixing your own ink

2002-11-27 by Ernst Dinkla

Paul, you wrote:

> Many like the Gen4 K with a standard quad.  However, the 25% dye does
cause
more fading and warm shifting.  That dye in the midtones would cause them to
fade even worse.  For the midtones, use a black pigment that has no dye in
the mix. <


What is worse then: a fading of all the greys proportionally or having a
black that will fade more than the greys ?

It has been mentioned here before in parts but it would be nice to see a
summary of the mixing ratios  (ratia?) for different quad sets and the resp.
density values for a given paper. Would that be possible ?

Ernst

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