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[Digital BW] Hextones FS Inks In Bottles ???

2001-12-10 by Paul Roark

Lon,

You wrote:

>MIS has quadtone FS inks in 4 and 16 oz. sets.  They also seem to
>have hextone FS cartridges. ...

I think MIS states that you should call them if you are interested in FS
inks in hextone.

I believe the situation is this -- For those using Piezo ink and driver in a
hextone printer, the FS inks can be used by putting the full strength cyan
and magenta inks in both the full-strength and light/"photo" ink positions
for those colors.  That is what the Piezo system does, and it works very
well.  However, if you do this you cannot use the Epson driver.  From my
experience, the Epson driver cannot be controlled in a manner that allows an
acceptable print with the same density inks in the full-strength and
light/photo positions.  So, there is no Woolf curve that works for hextones
and FS inks.

Paul
http://www.PaulRoark.com

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