Digital BW, The Print

Why don't you just subsitute MIS Eboni for the NK black ink (Museum  
K?) and then make Create-icc profiles for your papers. I doubt that  
you would need to re-do the QTR curves.

Carl

On Jan 7, 2007, at 1:01 PM, david627890 wrote:

> I have used the Cone NK7 inks in an R800 now for some time and haven't
> felt a lack of dmax in my prints except when compared side by side  
> with
> a similar print using MIS Eboni on the same (matt) paper.  The
> smoothness of this inkset has more than made up for this for most
> images though.  Now, however, I would like to try to improve the dmax
> if that is possible.  I use QTR for this printer/inks with the  
> standard
> Cone curves and generally use either Bradford Rag or HM Photorag  
> papers.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas about the best way to do this?  I have seen
> comments about "underprinting" on the site.  Presumably this means
> laying down two inks at the same time on the paper to increase the
> density?  If so is this a sensible approach to take using say the  
> black
> and the next darkest tone?  Would the paper take the additional ink
> load?  Clearly I would have to make my own curves and set the ink
> limits carefully.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts you might have.
>
> David Whistance
>