Digital BW, The Print

Jeff wrote:

>... where does the tone of the Neutral tone in the Sepia
>mix fall in to the tone choices of the current VM mix?

I'm shooting for dead neutral with EAM on my 1160 using the 1160's "warm"
curve (least amount of toner).  For colder tones, LPM will make the print
close to the NC curve.  However, for my 1160 and it's "warm" curve (which
might be re-named "sepia neutral") the tone would be slightly warmer than
the current "nc" curve.

The neutral base of the sepia-neutral inkset does warm, but less than and
slower than the other inks.  That is one reason I'm not building in any
coolness in anticipation of warming.  So, it will ultimately warm to a
medium warm, but it'll take a long time to do it.  For example, at 100 hours
in my fader, the neutral base warms less than half the amount of the MIS VM
or other inks.  In fact, I'm at 900 hours now with the neutral base (the
longest I've gone with any ink) and it's only about were the other inks are
at 100 hours.

Paul
http://www.PaulRoark.com