Digital BW, The Print

I’m using FS-Y, not FSN-Y.  It’s a little warm, but the cold papers knock it
down some.  I have it in the Y position, but you can put it anywhere using
QTR.

For non-matte papers, I don’t use black at all.  I use UT7-C with UT7-M as a
toner for the dark ink, and UT7-LC with UT7-LM as a toner for the light ink,
and FS-Y for the light-light ink.  That is a total of 5 slots.  I leave
Eboni in the black slot, and use it with all the others for matte papers.

If you are just getting started with QTR, you may be better off not trying
to create toner curves for M and LM; just use copy-curve from C and LC.

Ignoring printer faults, the gray ramp is smooth, with nearly dotless
highlights.  On areas of a 256 patch test strip, under a Solux lamp, I can
“see colors” like Clayton describes.  I don’t see them in the handful of
images I have printed when viewed normally, but I can see how training to
look for it might attune one to it.  I look forward to hearing from the
gurus once they get K7 running on the big machines.  My small prints don’t
typically have large areas of gentle gradient where it seems to matter.

Best regards,
John Moody

-----Original Message-----
From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of
santonov2you
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 2:22 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] UT7 on R200: which 6 of seven inks to use?

John, which inks from UT7 set are you using in r200? I understand
that Yellow position is for UTFSN-Y, how are you using the Light
Black ink? In which position?
I just got empty carts for r200 and want to repeat your experiment
with UT7. I quickly tried BO print (with PKN ink) but it is not
impressive on Kirkland paper -- too flat.

Thanks,
Sergei




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