Digital BW, The Print

Gen 4 comes from http://www.mediastreet.com

VM is Variable Mix inks. (With Paul Roark's curves you can get anything
from a cold tone to a warm tone with the
same inkset.

Jerry






capuozzo wrote:
> 
> 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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