Digital BW, The Print

I'm using the B&W Ultra Tone inkset with MIS 7600 Archival Pigment Light
Black in the light black position (since there's no Ultra Tone ink for
that) on an Epson Stylus Photo 2100.

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Daniel Staver
Petraflux Web-design | http://www.petraflux.com
Tel +47 22 35 44 57 | +47 Fax 22 35 40 66

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Roark [mailto:paul.roark@...] 
> Sent: 1. mai 2003 21:16
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Getting ultratones with the 2100 to 
> work on glossy
> 
> 
> Daniel,
> 
> What inkset are you using?  Is it the B&W Ultra Tone 
> variable-tone "quad," the Epson UltraChrome color inkset, or 
> the MIS 7600/9600/2200 color inkset?
> 
> Paul
> http://www.PaulRoark.com ________________________________________
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Staver [mailto:daniel@...]
> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 10:37 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Getting ultratones with the 2100 to 
> work on glossy
> 
> 
> I'm having serious trouble getting the ultratones to work 
> properly on glossy papers with my 2100. I'm not 100% sure, 
> but it seems to be the light black ink interfering, making it 
> impossible to cool down the shadow areas to anything less 
> than a really brownish gray. The problem is also there to a 
> much lesser extent on matte papers, but the prints I get 
> still appear totally neutral to my eyes at least, so there 
> it's not a problem.
> 
> Here's a scan of a 21+100 step wedge on both matte and glossy 
> papers where I toned the image with an extreme amount of 
> magenta, which in theory should make the entire curve blue, 
> but you'll see that from about 85% the curve starts turning brown.
> 
> http://daniel.staver.no/img/ultratones2100.jpg
> 
> Any suggestions on what I could do to solve this problem? I 
> don't think any kind of curve adjustment will solve this, so 
> I think the solution must be in changing the light black or 
> one of the other inks somehow. I've been wondering whether I 
> could mix a more neutral light black and keep a cartridge of 
> that available. It's not a big deal to change cartridges on 
> the 2100 so I would consider that a practical solution to the 
> problem. What would be the best way to mix a neutral ink? 
> I've never mixed my own inks before, so I'm not really sure 
> where to start. Would a combination of MIS Light Black and 
> some UT Cyan position ink work?
> 
> --
> Daniel Staver
> http://daniel.staver.no