Digital BW, The Print

I got my MIS PRO color inkset today. I was very interested in the glossy
performance of this inkset, and what I'm seeing so far looks promising, but
not perfect.

A lot of the bronzing and gloss differential is gone, but if I hold the
print in an extreme angle against the light I can still see some gloss
differential in the highlights where the paper is covered with very little
ink. This is probably because of the difference in gloss between the paper
itself and the inks.

I still think PKN with GLOP looks better, but this is much closer than
before. I didn't have a chance to get the UT7 inks with the new base this
time, but when I get some I'm hoping I can get away with using much less
GLOP than previously. I've been using a 60% coat over the entire image, but
I suspect with the new base I only need to put some in the highlights.

Compared to the Archival 7600 inkset these inks are _much_ better. I would
get mottling unless I used 2880dpi, but now the prints are good even at
1440dpi high speed. The new PK also has high dmax on Ilford Smooth Pearl.
The previous one was very weak.

I don't yet know if these inks will have the same settling problems as the
Archival 7600 inks. I'll let you know.

The inks will definitely need custom profiles. When using the Epson profiles
the prints were way too magenta.

I made a couple of QTR curves for the inkset and didn't have any problems
making neutral tones with either the PK or the PKN ink. I still need to fine
tune them though, they're a little too blue in the shadows still.

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Daniel Staver
http://daniel.staver.no