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[Digital BW] MIS Ultratone VM Ink Beta Testers?

2003-03-18 by Paul Roark

Doug wrote:

>... 1160 running Win98, the Photo Black ink (as opposed to matte
>black), PS 7.01 and the standard VM curves ...
>... testing using the ILFORD SMOOTH PEARL paper.

>... 21 step wedges for each of the four VM tone curves. ...

>*The 100,99,98,97,96% patches didn't have any visible separation ...

I just printed an Ilford Smooth Gloss with Ultra-Tone (my vm 4.3.5), Win98,
1160 and PS6.  The densitometer reads the 100% as 2.16 and the 95% as 1.60.
If anything, this is more than normal separation.

I used the standard VM settings for the 1160 -- including sRGB, Matte-Heavy
Weight paper type, and Color Controls-Mode = Automatic.

The results are so different that it would seem there must be a setting that
is different.

Paul
http://www.PaulRoark.com

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