Digital BW, The Print

Tom,

You wrote:

>Are the relationships between the midtones in all three inksets
>fairly linearly different?

I'm not sure what you mean here.

> I would sound like the VM inkset on a
>piezo driver might get one well down the road to a sepia print?

The Piezo driver does not distribut the toner ink in an even or appropriate
manner.  Use only MIS FS or Piezo inks with the Piezo driver.

The MIS VM-Sepia-Neutral (I have no idea what MIS will call it) should see
daylight soon.  I expect the FS-N will also be done soon.  (I'm still
working on getting an exact match to my lightly-selenium-toned, Kodak
Polymax Fine Art silver prints -- using the X-Rite photospectrometer to do
the measurements.)

Paul
http://www.PaulRoark.com

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--- 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