Digital BW, The Print

That does not sound like a very good idea.
With a K7 purchase, you are getting inks that were painstakingly formulated
to work together in a 7-color partition, as well as smooth curves for a
number of papers.
Even if you liked the look of Eboni with the 6 other grays, you would have a
very hard time generating curves as smooth as what comes with K7.  You might
be better off working with your StudioPrint setup than trying to improve K7.

Best regards,
John Moody

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Ben Ong
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 8:15 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Digest Number 3459


Re:    Digest  Number 3456 (piezography K7)


Hello Woody and everyone else.  It's nice to see talk about NK7, no one was
talking about it before. Anyway, Woody you mentioned you use Eboni Black.
I'm thinking of substituting Eboni as the main black in K7, and
relinierizing of corse with QTR. What do you think about that idea??? I've
never used any of Paul's inks before. I'm a little concerned about mixing
inks with different flow properties. The NK7's are indeed "slippery" and the
only time I've ever had a bad nozzle check is when I'm out of ink. The Dmax
from Eboni (it said 1.75 on PhotoRag on the MIS webpage) would make K7
really be the ultimate in mono inkjet printing. But then there is also the
issue of tone. Do you think introducing Eboni Black would effect the
neutrality?Any help on this would be great.

Thanks Benny.


P.S;    Oh and by the way I've also been trying to get a better Dmax via QTR
using the "ink limits" and "gamma" adjustments. No real difference so far,
but I've found that pumping a good amount of contrast to my image in PS gets
an acceptable Dmax. It's fiddly though and as you know the more work you
have to do in PS the more destructive to the file/image - so I don't like
doing that. How are you going with it?




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