Digital BW, The Print

I use the MIS Pro ink with the glossy papers.  However, these prints are not for sale.  Just folks to hang family pictures on the wall.  But, the glossy prints are just fiine.  When viewed under normal conditions they are perfectly fine.  Not qjuite up to the Claria inks, but just fine.
   
  Tom Baker

Richard Smallfield <r.smallfield@...> wrote:
          At 04:25 AM Thursday 4/26/2007, you wrote:
>At this time I actually have a mixture of MIS and EPSON UC inks in my 9600. Partly this is due to making a gradual move to the MIS. I will end up with - unless the MIS magentas get better, using all MIS except for the magentas, which will stay as Epson UC.

I've ordered some MIS Pro carts for my 2100 but am concerned about the magentas, too.

Two possibilities occur to me: one, switching back to the UC K2 carts only for display prints and two, using UC Magenta/Light Magenta as you use. That would mean less custom profiles as I'd only be using one set of inks.

My question is this: on lustre papers, what does a mix of MIS and UC have on gloss differential? The MIS are less glossy than the UC so I'm concerned about having regional gloss differential where there is magenta ink.

The other thing is that I print 90% BW, so in those images I imagine the differences in gloss between using the two inksets at once would be much less evident - so it may not be a problem there. 

I do like matte papers however (and they are all I currently use, due to the bronzing and gloss differential with UC K2 inks), so I suppose the simple solution is to stick to matte and enjoy the cost benefit of refilling five of my carts with MIS Pro inks.

Your thoughts would be appreciated, Tom.

thanks,
Richard 
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