Digital BW, The Print

Steve,

><paul.roark@v...> wrote:
>> I have my latest version of the VM inkset running on the 7500.
>>UC VM 4.3 (my terminology) is 100% MIS UC clone inks. >

>Quick work!

I'm desperate.  I have a show to print for, so this beast has to produce.

>I hope MIS is just as quick to produce, I can think of a
>couple people awaiting anxiously....

MIS seems to respond to polite harassment.  I think MIS is fairly
comfortable with the formula, since it uses inks the are MIS inks and have
been thoroughly tested.

>> I'm not sure why the 7500 with the 7000 driver
>>is producing slightly more prominent dots than the 7000
>>and 9000 do with the MIS VM inkset.
>>... it could be that the 7500 uses an increased head voltage
>>that pumps out more ink per dot, making each dot darker.

>This one gets my vote, I think the machine is just set up to spit
>out more black ink to make up for the whimpy D-max of the Arc-K.

If this is what it takes to get better blacks from the pigments, then I
think I agree with Epson's decision to sacrifice a little smoothness for the
sake of a good black.  In display prints only those looking for the dots
with their noses in the prints will have any chance of seeing any.  I bought
a pair of the strongest reading glasses the local drugstore sells so that I
could duplicate those with nearsightedness (or youth) who stick their noses
into the prints.  At normal viewing distance (Kodak uses 14" to measure
grain) there is no problem.

>I would be curious to compare dot-size & graininess, would you
>consider exchanging a print / grayscale?

Sure.  Maybe we can see if all the 7500s are the same or one of us bought a
turkey.  (On the other hand, maybe ignorance is bliss.)

You might also be interested in seeing the UC VM 4.3 inkset.  I have the
neutral curve essentially final, and the warm curve is tonight's project --
and close to done.  The inkset can go cold also, but I don't have much
interest in going very far in that direction.  I'll make other curves
eventually, but the warm and neutral are the most important for me.  Contact
me off list about the exchange.

Paul
http://www.PaulRoark.com