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Re: [Digital BW] What is actually in Ultrachrome inks?

2005-03-11 by john dean

Yes, that thing about the yellow channel being "re-engineered" for greater saturation and 
a more useful gamut in the reds is also something I heard when Ultrachome was first 
introduced. Now whether that yellow has "dye" in it I don't know, and we may not even be 
able to know without some chemist breaking it down methodically. Bottom line is it 
doesn't really matter except for semantic reasons. I was going to put on my website that I 
only work with pigments, no dyes, but I didn't say that ...... whatever.

I use both of these inksets and whatever they did to create UC works. Only if they made 
them for the 10K I already have. That printer is a much nicer machine all around, strong as 
an ox and significantly faster. I guess I'll have to go back to Lyson now for help.

That was great Paul, I'm printing it out for reference too.

John

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