Digital BW, The Print

> From: Steve Kale [mailto:stevekale@...]
>
> I can only say that what you see is what I get.  I  have not used
> UC PK that
> much.  In fact it wasn\ufffdt until the flurry of interest in sprayed RC paper
> prints that I dragged my PK out of the draw again and gave it a go.  The
> bronzing in normal QTR prints on RC even with spraying was too much for my
> taste.  BO on RC with spray is better re bronzing but still has awful
> reflectance differentials.  I am thinking about getting a
> (colour) 2200 CFS
> from MIS with Eboni instead of universal black but have some hesitations
> that I have outlined in other posts.  Plus all I seem to hear
> about Eboni is
> clog after clog after clog \ufffd please tell me I am wrong on this!  In my
> opinion, unless the reflectance differential can be ironed out
> (either with
> Eboni or otherwise) then even BO on RC paper (then sprayed) is
> out as far as
> I am concerned.  Consequently I have turned my attention back to
> QTR on matt
> and trying to understand this better and get the best I can out
> of it......

Yeah, bronzing is an issue with PK. I noticed it in an ImagePrint grayscale
print using stock UC inks, because of the increased reliance on the black
ink. But I don't think I'd want to give up the density just so I wouldn't
have to avoid certain viewing angles. And I don't really want to deal with
spraying prints, just to make the ink stick to the paper.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...