Digital BW, The Print

Paul,

Changing inks right now would not be an option since I just installed a CIF system on my 
1160 and it is going to take a lot of prints to go through those bottles.

BUT, I did some test prints this morning using the new curves you sent me and wow! 

They worked great, absolutely great! I just did some simple printing with an image that I 
have made notes on, only used 720 dpi so I could see just the difference in tonality and 
even those looked great! Did I mention they look great?!

Thanks so much, I am a happy camper. The curves work with no hassle - I don't want to 
hassle with the printer  — I just want good prints.

Now, how do these curves work with VFA or RW paper? !  :-)

lara


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark" <paul.roark@v...> 
wrote:
> Lara,
> 
> The old MIS VM curves might not work with OS X.  Since I don't have a Mac,
> I'm not able to test this.
> 
> It's probably time to upgrade to the UT1 or other inkset.  The MIS Ultra
> Tone family inks are the only ones I now use and support.
> 
> 
> 
> (Lara, the following is largely what I've sent to you off list and expands
> on the subject.)
> 
> 
> 
> With the original MIS VM inkset and curves, the Drive Color Management was
> set to "Color Controls."  Unlike "No Color Adjustment" (which I now use),
> "Color Controls" tends to include and impose its own ideas of how color
> should be handled; and it is not cross-platform or independent of the OS.
> There had to be separate PC and Mac sets of curves with the old MIS VM 1160
> curves.  (Utilizing the sliders was the reason for the Color Controls
> setting in the past.)
> 
> So, there is a fair chance that OS X is not compatible with the existing
> 1160 MIS VM curves for the older Mac operating systems.
> 
> I have upgraded the VM inkset.  The new one is sold by MIS as the "UT"
> inkset.  This was the first Ultra Tone family inkset I made.  There are now
> a number of others.  For these new inksets I have new curves that use "No
> Color Adjustment" ("NCA") and are platform independent (as far as I know).
> 
> So, I recommend you switch to one of the new UT inksets.  The MIS-UT inkset
> (also known as UT-1) is a straight upgrade of the MIS VM inkset.  But, of
> course, no 2 inks are identical.  I have made new curves for the UT-1 inkset
> that use the NCA adjustment and are cross-platform.  These new curves would
> have a much better chance of working, first, with the new UT1 inkset, and,
> second, maybe even with the old MIS VM inkset. 
> 
> Of course, if one only prints with one tone, then the UT-FS (medium warm) or
> UT-FSN (neutral) inkset might be a good way to go.  Their curves are more
> tolerant of paper differences.  
> 
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com