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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Greyscale ink-set for the epson R2400 (Which companies make them)

2007-06-02 by Tom Husband

A little further digging and I came up with Richard Wolfson's site where he
talks about the GQ2 ink.

http://www.richardwolfson.com/quadblack/

Tom Husband

On 6/2/07, Tom Husband <tom.husband@...> wrote:
>
> Has anybody used the MediaStreet GQ2 inks?
>
> I asked about them over in the QTR group and a gentleman by the name of
> Richard Wolfson answered saying, "Tom, I'm sorry I haven't posted much about
> GQ2 sooner; I've been waiting for Media Street to get it into production. I
> designed GQ2 for them months ago, and this week I finally got some inks they
> made so I could run final tests. They're perfect.
>
> Briefly, GQ2 includes two blacks, four grays, and a gloss optimizer.
>
> One prints with matte black or photo black neutral, depending on the
> paper. There are two warm grays, dark and light, and two cool grays, dark
> and light. And the gloss optimizer goes on reflective papers in light areas
> so the reflection is the same everywhere. Profiles let Roy's QuadTone RIP
> print these inks cold, warm, neutral, platinum, and more.
>
> I'll try to make more details available next week."
>
> That was on May 30.  It sounds like they aren't available yet they seem to
> be for sale at their site.
>
> Tom Husband
>
>
>
> On 6/2/07, Tyler Boley <tyler@...> wrote:
> >
> > one more that I know of-
> >
> > http://mediastreet.com/site/generations_gq.html
> >
> > extraordinarily badly redesigned website, hadn't been there in a
> > while, but them I'm an old guy...
> > Tyler
> >
>
>


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