Digital BW, The Print

aitor Peña Inclán <aitorpinclan@...> wrote:

>Hi,
>A client ask me for 250/300 greeting cards. I thinks is a good chance to buy
>a CIS and this work will finance it.
>My question is which kind of ink, paper use to print double side and how to
>fold it .
>Thanks.

and I've sent Aitor off-list a copy of my recent post, in the context 
of Anton's holiday-card exchange, about card, envelope, and enclosure 
supplies.

As for ink, I use both MIS VM Sepia-Neutral in one 1160, and, in 
another, MediaStreet's Enhanced Generations (fourth), sometimes 
printing B&W on one side and in color on the other.

In the case of the "Gen4", I have used Gen4 with its blended/hybrid 
pigment/dye (25 percent) black (nee "Beta Black") but now use the 
rest of Gen4 with the MIS VM pigment black substituted for the Gen4 
black. But the Gen4 black is blacker - that's why the dye is there - 
and sometimes that matters.

If I had a printer with Epson's dye-based ink set in it, I think I 
would use it for color work on at least most cards, maybe not 
postcards (w/o envelopes) though.

If I had 250/300 cards to fold, I might take them somewhere to be 
folded by machine. But they print slowly enough that I think one 
person working manually with a bone could easily keep up with the 
printer and do some useful quality-control work in the process. 
Either way, I'd try to wait a day after printing before folding, at 
least in a humid climate.

Sam McCandless         samcc@...