Digital BW, The Print

Paul,

For those of us who are have single channel to test our new ultratone inks,
can you tell us what the target densities for the hextone set should be?  I
can make anything work with IJC, but don't want to the trouble of profiling
a nonstandard set of inks.

Robert

On 4/3/03 2:14 PM, "Paul Roark" <paul.roark@...> wrote:

> Yes, we now understand why the Ultra Tone inks and vm curves were not
> working for some people.  Not all batches were affected, but a number of 4
> oz. bottles were shipped that had not only the wrong percentages, but also
> the wrong inks (thus the rub-off problem some mentioned).
> 
> MIS has now mixed a new batch of inks and measured the density of printed
> test strips.  These density measurements coincide with the densities of the
> inks I've mixed.
> 
> Be sure to contact MIS if you think you have one of the bad batches.
> Apparently all the bad batches were 4 oz. bottles, not pints.  Also let MIS
> know if a CIS or CFS was polluted by the bad inks.
> 
> Paul
> http://www.PaulRoark.com
> 
> __________________________________________________
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: scrber [mailto:stephen.bate@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 11:46 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Ultratone Mix is wrong!
> 
> 
> Doug pointed this out to me this morning, no-one seems to have posted
> so I thought I would put it up for info.
> Certainly explains why I have been struggling with the curves, I
> spent the whole of last night trying to get a smooth wedge and failed.
> 
> Taken from MIS website news :
> 
> 
> April 2, 2003 - Error on Ultra-Tone B&W Inks
> We have discovered that some of the Ultra-Tone B&W ink that we sent
> to beta testers was not made correctly. We apologize for this, it was
> not done intentionally, of course. These inks will be to dark.. Quad-
> C, Quad-M, Hex-C, Hex-Y and Hex-PC. If you are having problems,
> please call (248-391-2163) us and we will replace these inks. Any
> Ultra-Tone ordered after today (4-2-03) will be correct
> 
> 
> Hope this helps those of you having the same issues as me....
> 
> Steve
> 
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