Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Richard 
Smallfield <r.smallfield@p...> wrote:
> At 04:58 AM Thursday 11/20/03, you wrote:
> .....There is nothing on the site that I have seen, that states 
that the UT inks or Eboni in particular, require different procedures 
from the other MIS inks when they are first installed.

From the MIS site:..The Ultra-Tones will mix fine with MIS Original 
Archival, Original Quadtone, VM and FS inks, but not with MIS Dyebase 
or Double Density Black. Always start with virgin empty CFS carts to 
be safe.

The information on the Eboni ink can be found within the archives on 
this forum. It's the comments from Mr. Roark, (who has done a 
tremendous amount of testing and work in developing the formulas, 
that MIS uses to produce the UT inks) that I have heeded. He 
cautioned that there could be a problem going from one ink to the 
Eboni, and I found it to be true(IN MY CASE).
   
> Have you found MIS to be overoptimistic in their claims? I take it 
you have learned from hard experience.

Not in the least. As their statement, above states, to start with a 
virgin cart. I did, but I did not throughly clean out the print head. 
The little bit of ink in the print head, and on the pad, was enough 
to start some clogs. Since then, I have recleaned eveything and have 
not had nearly the problem. If I don't print for awhile, I MAY 
develop a clog , in the black(eboni) position, but I expected this as 
the eboni has a higher density of pigments than the other inks. Other 
factors can contribute to clogs, other than the ink used, such as the 
fact that I use 100% cotton papers, the temperature and humidity in 
the room I have my digital darkroom in. I have even read that 
altitude can possibly cause problems with pigmented inks due to their 
higher densities than dye inks.
Am I happy with the UT inkset? You bet I am! MIS has put out an 
affordable pigmented inkset that, along with the work that Mr roark 
has done, I am able to use in a printer that was not designed for 
this type of ink, and get the results that I was looking for back in 
2000, when I decided to look into inks, papers and a printer, that I 
could dedicate to B&W printing.  
> 
> If anyone else has information on this, I would appreciate hearing 
it.
> 
> thanks,
> Richard
> 
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