Digital BW, The Print

I have a cart in my 1280 now that has basically FSN-tone inks in the C & LC
and carbon in M & LM.  The twists are that the C is actually PKN, and the M
is PK.  The LC is 7500UT-FSN-LC (mixed per my 7500 Readme), which is about
the same density as the UT2-LM carbon that is in the LM.

I have glop in Y, but for the smoothest prints, UT-FS(N)-Y could be put in
the Y spot.

The reason I didn't go with the straight FSN densities is that the 2
lightest FS ink mixes are very light.  Then there is too much of a gap to
the C density.  Especially when these are in both C and M positions, this
floods glossy papers.  By having more rational ink densities this can be
avoided.  Also, the carbon in the other channel allows profiling the shadows
of the papers that have excessively cold shadows.

Of course, the PKN allows a great dmax.

The curves for printing are really simple.  With the Epson driver the file
does need to be RGB, but then the red curve is all that needs to be used for
a glossy neutral print.  So, it's like a monotone inkset.  To turn on the
Eboni, which I keep in the K position, the other curves do need to be
dropped at the last minute.

The denser inks produce less bronzing.  With the Epson driver the lack of
control of the C-LC crossover hinders the ability to deal with this, but
with Costco paper, I'm not sure glop is needed.  That, of course, means that
the FS-Y could be in Y for totally smooth highlights.  Just use if for the
first 10% or so, and then turn it off completely.  The blue curve can do
this easily.

With the 2200 I will be trying to see if I can use a RIP to make curves that
do away with the need for glop.   It might be possible with this type of ink
setup and the best glossy papers (Costco and Premium Semimatte).

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com 
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen P. Veillette [mailto:stephen@...] 
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 8:42 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: bad UT2 1280 carts confirmed



UT-FSN is quite neutral.  I've been printing on EEM, and the results are
very nice.

The cartridge for the 1280 contains three gray inks (dark, medium, light),
with the dark 
and medium ink repeated to fill out the five positions.  Highlights are
dotless, even at 
close inspection, and all tones are very smooth.

-Steve

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "jimpegoda"
<pegoda@c...> 
wrote:
> 
> Steve,
> I'm thinking about trying the UT-FSN set to see how "ditherless" I 
> can get. Is it truly neutral, how is the dither pattern, it has a 
> lighter light gray I think?
> -Jim
> 






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