Digital BW, The Print

Funny enough this is what I have found; the old NCA curves work 
better than the UT curves.  I get quite alot of posterization when 
using the UT80 curves whereas they are pretty clean using the NCA 
curves. I have also found the UT curves make the deep shadows too 
light meaning that they are light grey rather than dark grey/black.

I will keep you posted as I get more results.

However, the best thing about the UT inks is the (almost) lack of 
metarism.  I have done some test prints on Fuji Multijet and they are 
very good, not like the severe bronzing that I got when using the 
Permajet VT Blax pigment inks.

Thanks for the advice, Gareth

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark" 
<paul.roark@v...> wrote:
> Gareth,
> 
> >I have just had delivery of a CIS with UT to work on my 1270.  I am
> >using the NCA curves from the inksupply.com website and find the 
best
> >result with the nc1. curve.
> 
> >Is this the best set of curves to use on a PC and 1270 or are there
> >others that would be more suitable?
> 
> The 870/1270 vm "NCA" curves are probably the best curves for the 
UT inkset
> and the 1270.  I have not made UT-specific curves for the 1270.  
The old vm
> and new UT inksets use the same densities.  I found on my 1160 the 
old
> curves worked quite well.  The UT inkset was designed so that 
the "nc" curve
> would produce a neutral print with a slight "selenium" bias.
> 
> Let us know what curves work the best on the 1270.  There are older 
1270
> curves out there also.  I have not heard whether the 1280 UT curves 
work on
> the 1270.  In general, the curves only work well with the driver 
they were
> designed for.
> 
> Paul
> http://www.PaulRoark.com