Digital BW, The Print

Paul-

Are the relationships between the midtones in all three inksets 
fairly linearly different? I would sound like the VM inkset on a 
piezo driver might get one well down the road to a sepia print? With 
a little tweak???

Tom O'Connell

TomOC@...
www.thomasoconnell.com

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Paul Roark" 
<paul.roark@v...> wrote:
> Bernd,
> 
> You wrote:
> 
> >Switching from one inkset to another often leaves a lot of
> >"unusable" ink behind. For example, I've been running out of the
> >Piezo yellow-substitute on my 1160, while my black and cyan
> >stays more than half full and magenta has a reasonable rest too.
> >...I do not want to buy Piezo
> >inks again  so must I pour out  the Piezo-rest into the sink or can
> >I use it with any of the other inksets ?
> 
> >Which inks of the different sets can substitute each other...
> 
> MIS VM K = MIS FS K = (for practical purposes) Piezo K
> 
> The mid-tone inks are all different.  MIS VM grays are the warmest, 
Piezo
> next warmest, and FS midtones the least warm -- but still medium 
warm.
> 
> While the mid-tone inks are different, they are compatible and the 
densities
> of certain of the inks are the same.
> 
> MIS VM cyan density = (within 1%) MIS FS cyan density = Piezo cyan 
density.
> 
> MIS FS magenta-position density = Piezo magenta density.
> 
> MIS FS yellow-position density = Piezo yellow density.
> 
> 
> I don't know what success one would have mixing inks in a CIS.  I 
suspect it
> would work fine, but no guarantees.  Since the option is to throw 
out the
> CIS, there is not much lost in trying it.  You might start by 
adding small
> amounts of the new ink and mixing the inks in the bottle first.  
This might
> spread out the color differentials to the point you'll never see 
them.
> 
> Paul
> http://www.PaulRoark.com