Digital BW, The Print

Mike,

I am not happy with the tonal range of the prints but that is not 
anything I would blame on the inks.  I am under deadline to produce 
prints for a client, and don't have time to play/experiment with the new 
inks.  This is why I pulled them out last night and went back to epson 
inks [so I could actually be /productive/.]  To their credit, the inks 
came out cleanly, and the epsons re-installed cleanly and quickly.

I absolutely plan on coming back to the MIS inks because the prints 
produced were exactly what I wanted in terms of no color shift 
[metasmerism], etc.. The only problem I still have to overcome is the 
mid range values were extremely flat.  I will post comparison images 
[between the epson and the mis inks] in a similar manner to the leaking 
images today.

-Joie



mbrouphy wrote:

> Joie,
> Your prints looked totally uneffected by the problem and only the
> front and back ends got trashed.  From what I could see on you
> evidence pix the printed portraits look real nice and can only
> imagine that you are pleased with the tonal quality, gradations,
> contrast, etc.  Can you please expound on that? There seems to be
> some question on the suitability of the c86, which I would be using,
> and MIS for BO printing.
>
> But, it's a shame that this is a problem which has been going on for
> some time with this system, though. Hopefully, my concerns will be
> put aside in the future.
>
> Mike
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, joie puckett
> <jopuck3@e...> wrote:
> > Mike,
> >
> > The inks were installed on saturday morning and removed saturday
> night. 
> > I will contact them Monday to see what they say.  The only real
> issue
> > with the ink getting on the printer is related to the rollers. 
> Luckily,
> > the ink leaked only onto the paper, and being wet when rolled out,
> found
> > itself on the rollers.
> >
> > -Joie
> >
> >
> > mbrouphy wrote:
> >
> > > YUK!  Have you had any satisfaction from MIS customer service. If
> > > that happened to my wife's 2200 she'd be all over me like ugly on
> an
> > > ape! And, rightfully so.  I guess I'm glad I'm starting out with
> > > converting a c86 to BO first before I go further down this road. 
> It
> > > will be interesting to see how this resolves out. MIS has
> > > an 'opportunity' here and hopefully will cease it.
> > > Thanks for the feedback, Mike
>


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