Digital BW, The Print

I don't really know what you could be doing wrong, but
I just recently purchased the MIS_VMS inkset. I tried
it with Roark's curves and got a lot of posterization.
I downloaded Keith Kreb's curves and have had
excellent results with them. I like his #6 for sepia
tho I sometimes tweak it a little, depending on the
image. And I use the #3 and #4 for warmtone neutral
prints. It's worth downloading them and playing
around. You can get them from the list's download
area. Good Luck
Evelyn
--- Keith Douglas <kdouglas@...> wrote:
> I just got my brand-new Epson 1280 and MIS-VM inkset
> yesterday, and I'm 
> quite disappointed with the results.
> 
> I, at risk, decided to just load the MIS carts
> without loading the epson 
> carts first.  Did a head alignment and nozzle check.
>  Printed a step wedge 
> using the instructions given on the MIS website
> (using the Roark NC curve 
> for the 1280) on EAM.  The step-wedge looked good
> both compared to onscreen 
> and with a Q-13 test target.
> 
> So far, so good.
> 
> I printed a test image (on EAM) which I had
> previously printed with my 
> Epson 890 using the Lyson Quad-black inkset (on
> HWM).  No comparison at all 
> -- the Lyson print is clearly better.  The problems
> with the MIS one that I 
> see are:
> - I can see dots in the darker tones a couple of
> steps up from black 
> (around 13 on the Q-13) even without a loupe.  Going
> back to the 
> step-wedge, you can see the dots there too.
> - the Lyson print is sharper
> - the lyson print seems to be more continuous-tone. 
> When compared to the 
> Lyson, the MIS print seems to be posterized.  That
> is, if you examine one 
> particular area, there seems to be a larger number
> of tonal steps going 
> from dark to light on the Lyson print than the MIS
> print.
> - on the plus side, the MIS print seems to be more
> neutral than the Lyson one
> 
> I could just buy the Lyson inkset for the 1280, but
> I'd like to have an 
> archival print.  Also, my impression from reading
> here was that the MIS 
> results would be superior to the Lyson results.
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions for what I'm doing
> wrong?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Keith Douglas
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------
> Keith Douglas, L432F, x57590
> 
> 


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