Digital BW, The Print

Michael Poster wrote:
> At 05:42 PM 12/16/2004, you wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm using Staedtler MarsMatic 700 0.25 ISO drawing pens filled
>>with the cmYk inkjet inks for retouching. Stipple technique like
>>in chromo-lithography. Suits me better.
> 
> 
> This may be obvious to some, but I'm wondering what if any clogging 
> problems you have with these pens. If they do tend toward clogging how to 
> you prevent it? And how do you fill the pens? 

That type of Staedtler Mars pens is the refillable kind, a small 
cylindrical cart in the pen filled from the Generations / MIS ink 
bottles. How to do that from small carts is a question I never 
though of.

Never had better pen inks than the inkjet ink type :-) Tap the 
pen (not the tip side of course) on the table before you put the 
cap back on, do the same if there's less flow. They never clogg, 
some papercoating can get in the tip while working but that is 
solved by the method mentioned. Staedtler Mars also makes pigment 
inkjet inks these days, they learned something from making pen 
inks I guess. The 700 series goes down to 0.13 ISO, I'm using the 
0.25 and 0.18.

http://www.staedtler-mars.com/

Ernst