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Which Inkset?

2003-06-18 by baduerr

I have been using MIS's original VM inks on a 1160 and 99% of the 
time I use the neutral curve.  The resulting prints are nice but 
seems to lack the drama that I was able to achieve in the wet 
darkroom.  I am wondering if another inkset would give the result 
that I am looking for, namely deep netural blacks and punch (what 
ever that means).  

I'm considering MIS's utra-tones, FS-N, or one of Cone's inksets.  I 
don't need the tone options of the utra-tones but am more intrested 
in a neutral to cool inkset.  Also, I don't want to go through the 
expense of purchasing special printer drives just to find out later 
that I don't like the result.  Lately, I have been using QuadTone 
Rip 2.0 with very good result.

Could I use QuadTone Rip with the Cone inks? 

I guess my basic question is:  

"Ignoring the issues of print drivers,long term print fading, or the 
need to vary tone, which inkset will produce deep neutral, or 
slighlty cool, blacks (on EAM)."

I know that a lot of you have already faced the inkset issue so I 
would like tap into your experiences and knowledge.  

Thanks, Brad

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