Digital BW, The Print

I have experimented extensively with both on Epson 1160, 2200 and  
finally 7600 printers.

I currently use Piezotone Museum Black, with both the Selenium and  
Carbon Sepia ink sets. QTR allows me to blend between these two and I  
just built a split tone version mixing the sets. The control of tone  
is not radical, but allows for fine tuning within the range of warm  
to somewhat cool.

I had the greenies with first edition Cone inks
Moved to Piezotones but wanted the ability to vary tone
I experimented with MIS UT2, and UT7 but had problems with mis-labled  
cartridges on 3 occasions, leaky cartridges, unavailable inks and  
carts that had bad chips and would not work.
I finally settled on the configuration mentioned above.

It seems that hardly anyone else had the QC issues I experienced with  
MIS so they seem to have gotten their act together, but at this point  
I have been printing happily for 2 years with my current  
configuration and am too busy making prints (and money) to experiment  
as I used to be.

I really enjoyed the absolute control of tone I had with the UT7 inks.

My 2 cents.

James Haney



On Aug 21, 2006, at 8:51 AM, Barry wrote:

> I'm fairly new to the group. There seems to be a preference toward  
> MIS over Cones B&W
> inksets. Could someone fill me in on the reason? I'm running 2200,  
> 2400, 9600, 1280
> printers with, primarily, Red River papers.
>
> Thanks,
> -Barry
>
>
> 



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