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Re: [Digital BW] C86 Black-only and MIS EZ carts -- questions and comments

2005-05-13 by Lee Hiers

On 13 May 2005 at 12:37, Jordan Wosnick wrote:

> When my MIS EZ inks arrived I had really high hopes. I installed 
> them, plugged in Paul Roark's recommended settings for the C86 on 
> EEM (linked on the MIS web site) and then made some prints of 
> images that I had previously made BO prints from. To be honest, I 
> was a little disappointed -- while the EZ prints are excellent, I 
> couldn't see any significant difference in tonality or "smoothness" 
> between them and the BO prints (of the same image) at normal 
> viewing distances.

You're the first person I've heard of that's happy with BO printing 
on a C86.  I tried it and had too much banding to be acceptable.  The 
EZ inks smooth that out and are nice, but I never got a good BO print 
after many head alignment attempts.  

I'd say you got really lucky!

Lee


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Lee Hiers, AA4GA
Cornelia, Georgia

"Have Dobro Will Travel"

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