Digital BW, The Print

Alex,

Just now my printer is loaded with dye FS inks which I mixed 
myself with Paul Roark\ufffds help. With Piezo driver the prints are 
beautiful but not permanent. My plan was to make digital 
negatives with these inks and E3000 but the inks don't dry on 
the film. Epson and after market CMY inks I bought here work very 
well but the dots are to disturbing.

I first started with Cone's Piezo inks and it was very expensive
disaster because of clogging.

Then I bought MIS WM-Sepia inks because they are pigment and
permanent. The prints are beautiful with or without Paul's
curves. No clogging at all. In april last year I put one print 
under the window facing the sky and it yellowed a little bit and
lost 1/2 stop of density in two weeks. The print is still there
unchanged after 16 months. One thing is sure, Enhanced Matte is
very good paper. I tried to make digital negatives with these
inks, they dry but I got smudging in 90% and 95% steps because
of the black ink which has a different solvent.

I am using this printer to make test prints with Piezo driver.
There is one more thing shall try. I shall buy used E1290, load 
it with dye CMY inks to make digital negatives and try to find 
non clogging permanent black to print black only. I have seen
Clayton Jones's BO prints and I liked them very much, and that 
would be the end of my experiments, my resources are not 
unlimited.

Kemal

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"B. Alex Pettit Jr." wrote:
> 
> Kemal,
> I had a similar problem ( posted a few days ago ).
> What greyscale inks are you using in your E3000?
> Thanks,
> Alex
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Kemal Delic <k.
> delic@t...> wrote:
> > Ernst,
> >
> > I had a similar problem here with Epson 3000. The black ink
> > was over spraying on one side on carriage return. I thought
> > the printed was broken, but I tried with dye inks and
> > everything is just fine. I didn't complain because the UT-WM
> > inks are experimental.
> >
> > Kemal
> >