Digital BW, The Print

Joie,
Thanks for the reply. When you do get those posted would you take 
some time to verbally describe your impressions of the differences. 
It's hard to tell at low res jpg how any subtleties actually look.
Thanks, Mike

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, joie puckett 
<jopuck3@e...> wrote:
> 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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