Digital BW, The Print

A follow up report now that the new inks are in the new printer.

I installed the new MIS FS carts into the repaired 1160 yesterday and had a
good nozzle check after 4 cleaning cycles. Spent a while playing with paper
settings in the Cone driver ran a few 21 step wedges and found that the MIS
FS ink is not far off the Piezo ink but the Somerset Photo Enhanced Satin
I'm using was showing compression in the 40%- 50% areas.

 Next I played with dot gain settings to get close to a good output and then
made an adjustment curve to fine tune the midtone compression which is
giving me an output that is pretty close to the screen.

I can't really make a print to print comparison with the Cone inks because I
was never able, on my set up, to get a really good print with them but this
combination of Cone driver MIS FS inks and the input and help from this
community is now letting me make some very nice prints.

Thank you all and I'll keep you posted.

p.s. whats the betting that now I've sent this email it all starts playing
up ;-)

Regards

Mike Stone

+44 (0)20 8365 7976

michaelstone@...

www.mikestonephotographer.com