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Paul R: mixing two new shades of ut-fs

2005-09-02 by john eckenrode

Hi Paul

Random thought. I am on the verge of running out of UT
ink in my CIS for my epson 1200. I am shortly gonna
convert my 2200 to my black and white machine. But in
the meanwhile i am still messing with my 1200. Anyway
I was wondering if it would be difficult to make a 5
tone FS inkset. I like warmer prints and my UT set had
too many dots in the 30% to 40% zone. For skin tones
it just didn't suit me. I jumped through a zillion
hoops to get rid of the dots through QTR and did okay,
I made some really nice curves except for those dots.
there are also some dots in the deep shadows but they
are not as noticeable. 

I am willing to give up variable toneality for
smoothness. Would this be hard for me to do. I would
need a "bridge tone between" the two lightest tones
and a dark "bridge" between eboni and darkest grey. If
its too difficult i am just gonna go back to my UT
setup. But i thought this might be interesting to try
out.

Oh, I am only concerned about matte paper on this
printer, my usual is PFA.

Thanks for any input.

John E

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