Digital BW, The Print

Paul

Thanks.  I will likely drop the FSN-Y when I need a sepia slot but for now,
since I just bought the bottle, I may as well use it.  I have not had issues
with flooding the paper thus far and there is a noticeable difference in
highlight dots between my neutral curve and the warm under a loupe.  Keep us
posted on the new FSN M (do I understand that right? Ie there is a new one
on the way?).  In the interim, I've got to use some of this ink rather than
collecting full bottles of the stuff in my cupboard.  Currently, though, I
am tempted to trash the brand new 4oz bottle (less 12ml) of MIS PK I have
here....going once, going twice....

Steve


> From: Paul Roark <paul.roark@...>
 
> Steve,
> 
> I suspect they will produce a PKN - I assume my PKN3 version.
> 
> By the way, modern printers don't need the UT-FSN-Y light ink.  In fact the
> UT-FSN-M is even too light.  The middle-gray position UT-FSN I mixed for my
> 7500 is about right, being about the same density as the UT2 and UT7 light
> inks.
> 
> In addition to the light inks just wasting jets in a printer, they tend to
> flood glossy papers, making them rougher instead of smoother.  Also, I found
> with the 7500 that closing the C to M density gap eliminated some persistent
> micro-banding.  I set the density of the new 7500 medium density gray
> empirically.  I tested a range of densities and balanced the dots at both
> ends of the range and the microbanding until I found what seemed to be the
> low point overall.  Perhaps not by coincidence, that density was very close
> to what turned out to be the best on the 1280 and 2200.
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
>