Digital BW, The Print

Steve, Could you enlighten me- what is Gen 4 ink- where does it come from?
Also VM and GP. I'm having a hard time deciphering the initials and could
use the help.

thanks, Capp
  -----Original Message-----
  From: scrber [mailto:stephen.bate@...]
  Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 8:54 AM
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: [Digital BW] Re: UltraTones - what to do?


  I have had a slightly different experience.
  I bought a brand new printer, never run anything in it, and a set of
  MIS GP colour inks (uses Eboni as the black)

  The black clogged, and clogged and I never, once, got a good print
  (the colours printed fine).  I switched to PK black and it was great,
  but I didn't like the bronzing effect on non-matt paper (plus the
  known low Dmax on matt was no compromise) and couldn't afford
  Pictorio film on a day-to-day basis.  Therefore I switched back to
  Gen4 black, got a custom profile made (the MIS canned ones are
  ABSOLUTELY hopeless) and am getting superb prints. No clogs.

  I had my other 1290 running the old VM hex set.  I switched to the
  Ultratones, and was unlucky to get the bad batch on inks.  However,
  even with a new CIS cart, the black just clogged and clogged and
  clogged - and you guessed it, I never got ONE good print.

  Switched to GEN4 and the original VMs, working like a dream, despite
  a glitch with a bad CFS cart to start with.

  I am one guy in a big pond, but I will never go near Eboni black
  again - too many grey hairs, burst blood vessels and ruined sheets of
  paper / CFS carts for me!

  Good luck

  Steve




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