Digital BW, The Print

> I would recommend changing the cartridge part of the CFS.  The
gray inks are
> slightly warmer, and the entire inkset uses an entirely new
base to allow it
> to print on RC paper.
>
> The black ink is sensitive to dye ink pollution.  I'm not sure
if there is
> enough dye in the VM K to trigger the problem, but I would not
take a
> chance.
>
> I have had no problems with the new inkset.  There were some
initial
> problems with a mistake in mixing, defective CIS carts, and,
apparently, dye
> ink pollution.  Those are the only patterns I've seen.  There
have been a
> few questions come up that don't fit any pattern.  So, it's
still early in
> the inkset's usage, and I think MIS is appropriately covering
itself by
> being cautious.  To me, it's a big improvement, however.

Paul,

Yesterday, two weeks after loading them I had some severe
clogging problems with the Ultratone in the 9000. Despite the
fact that I had done a very thorough cleaning process to get all
dye out. Not sure about one damper I replaced that one but
couldn't get all the nozzles running right.
Gave up yesterday evening as I know it sometimes gets better with
a night rest (for me and the printer). This morning all was right
without any extra cleaning needed. Printed a Photo Rag sheet with
a digital reconstruction of a piece of conceptual art (text and
lines in black with all the imperfections of that 70's artist
product reproduced but without the coffeee stains)  for the
modern art museum in town. They were wild about the quality. For
that kind of work you need greys as well as a kind of
antialiasing in the text and lines + the tonal gradation of the
blacks that was in that imperfect original. Started with half a
GB 24 bits colour scan and ended with a 30 MB greyscale file. Two
days work in total to get all the dirt out etc. Not the usual
purpose of quad printing so I thought I would mention it.

Ernst