Digital BW, The Print

I mean the NEW prints looked bad. The "old" (couple of days or 
weeks) were fine. That can not have anything to do with fading.


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Hogarth Hughes 
<hogarth@s...> wrote:
> The old Sundance WN inks are well know for the fading and warm 
shifting 
> you are seeing. I suggest trying either the Piezotones or the 
current 

> range of MIS inks. Current generation inks have pretty much solved 
this 
> problem.
> 
> --
> Hogarth Hughes
> 
> 
> igorw2001 wrote:
> 
> >Hi everyone!
> >
> >3 weeks ago I encountered an annoying thing: I noticed that my 
fresh 
> >B&W quadtone prints were different when I compared them with older 
> >prints of the same file. As if the tones had shifted, with loss of 
> >detail. And the step wedge I printed looked bad: some of the steps 
in 
> >the middle area almost blended into each other. Something was not 
> >right, and it had to be the I N K, because when I printed pure 
> >swatches of black, Y, M and C (to be able to view, on the print, 
the 
> >pure, unmixed B&W inks) I could see and measure that it had 
changed 
> >compared to how it used to be (I compared it with a print of the 
same 
> >swatches I luckily made about a month ago).
> >
> >I applied an extra Photoshop curve to "repair" this, and it
> >worked quite well. 
> >But now, 3 weeks later, it happens again! Again the prints and 
step 
> >wedge have changed! I don't want to go one and one adjusting each 
> >time, because it is a lot of work. And it is very frustating to 
know 
> >that your results are not consistent.
> >
> >
> >Now, how can it be that inks change tone? I could think of some 
> >reasons:
> >
> >-they changed the receipe, down in the factory. By mistake or on 
> >purpose. Can that be?
> >
> >-the inks have got too old. They are about a year old, I guess. 
> >Possible?
> >
> >Is anyone familiar with this problem? And what should I do about 
it, 
> >because it drives me nuts?
> >
> >All the time I've been using an Epson 1160 with B&W Sundance
> >Neutral Warm Inks (formerly PiezographyBW), and use the Photoshop 
> >curve that Paul Roark kindly provided for this inkset. 
> >
> >
> >Thanks in advance.
> >
> >Igor Wesdorp
> >Amsterdam
> >
> >
> >
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