Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark"
<paul.roark@v...> wrote:
> Chatzebussi,
> 
> > 
> > I still have an old EPSON 1160 with just one "black"-nozzle not firing
> > properly - I think that nozzle has gone for good.
> 
> In addition to the usual cleaning recommendations, you might try a
cleaning
> cart and let it sit there, with occasional cleaning cycles, for a
week or
> more.
> 
> > ... If I were to "upgrade" Ebony k with a
> > "colour" cartridge for a different printing technique  should I choose
> > the "FS" oder the "FSN" version??? Put otherwise: is FS' or FSN's
> > original/inherent "hue" nearer Ebony's mildly warm k???
> 
> FS is warmer than FSN and closer to Eboni's warm tone.  I call FS medium
> warm.
> 
> > Why am I asking this question? The answer: I can't stand even ever so
> > slight hue "deviations" along the d-curve, e.g. one part being warm,
> > one part cooler, and one part more neutral ...
> 
> Of course, the problem with a "monotone" inkset is that different papers
> print with different tones or colorcasts in different parts of the
curve.
> One reason for the variable-tone approach is to be able to profile the
> papers so that they are even.  Identical ink colors doesn't do it.
> 
> For example, Eboni is closer to neutral in the dark shadows than in the
> lighter tones.
> 
> 
> > Of course I should like to get slightly more neutral prints than you
> > can get with the BO-Ebony-k technique but then I am a purist as far as
> > the overall hue goes. No compromise there (see above).
> 
> UT-FS is probably your best shot.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com



Dear Paul

thanks for your knowledgeable answer(s)

1) I recently was given an EPSON 1520 for free, practically no copies
"on the clock", but unused for more than two years and of course
clogged, clogged, clogged...

I used almost all the tricks of the trade I have heard of and when
after two to three weeks of fiddling around I was on the verge of
giving up it began to print again. Today I am proud to say its working
properly again. It would have been such a shame to throw that printer
away ....

So perhaps I should follow the same procedure with my EPSON 1160.
We'll wait and see.

2) Taking it from your very precise description of MIS FS vs MIS FSN
behaviour I will opt for the FS "shot" on EAM/EEM and Hahnemühle PR. I
do realize but now that matters are much more complex than I thought:
(Printer), Inks AND paper playing an nonlinear trio in the
tone/colorcast issue of the curve and that proper profiling would be
the answer ... (but then I have an EPSON 2100, too).

Chatzebussi

P.S. OT: Remember "Where is Haunmeyer" a few years ago?