Digital BW, The Print

Hi Paul

I sprayed the prints with Lyson Print Guard, several coats, before trying
the Renaissance Wax to remove the remainder of the bronzing and leave a
coating so as to avoid glazing.  I thought this was a popular albeit
relatively new technique.  The spray seems to seal the Eboni (and other ink)
to the touch but I was dismayed when I then rubbed the wax on.  (BTW Eboni
sticks to RC much better than Epson UC matt black.)  I will try again.

By blackless printing I mean using UT2/7 but without the K (either thru
using your curves or QTR), using the ³colour position² inks only.

<<MIS 7600 & 2200 Light black is the main ingredient in the UT inks, and
that
is RC compatible.  Eboni is not used at all in the diluted or "color"
position inks in the UTs.>>

What I meant was that if to avoid/eliminate bronzing on RC paper one should
avoid the use of Eboni and use just the shades of ³MIS 2200 Light Black²
then it begs the question as to why MIS doesn¹t invent a K position ink with
LK attributes except of course that it is a dark black, ie a darker LK.
(Given the LK and lighter inks have no issues with both matt and RC papers.)

A while ago you had mentioned that the UT7 LK was a much more neutral LK
than the Epson UC LK.  Is just this ink alone enough to drive significant
dMax or is only when combined with the other colour position inks in the UT7
set that one can get enough dMax without the use of the K ink (Eboni)?  If
so then it might work for me to replace my MIS CFS-2200-UC LK with the UT7
LK and make QTR curves that just use this LK (cooled or warmed as necessary
by Y, LM, LC).

Thoughts?

Thanks

Steve








[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]