Digital BW, The Print

Awesome, Paul. Thanks.

Mark  

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark"
<paul.roark@...> wrote:
>
> >Just wondering what the latest info is on fade resistance of 
> >MIS UT7 inks, especially versus Piezography. 
> 
> My tests of the MIS UT inks v. the Cone PiezoTone inkset showed them
to be
> essentially equal.  MIS UT neutral beat the selenium by just a hair, but
> that was probably too little to be significant.  I consider them equal.
> 
> One thing I do want to mention, however, is that the UT7 sepia uses
magenta
> and yellow to get there.  Cone's sepia is a carbon -- perhaps a weak
carbon,
> but still, I'd assume, stronger than the UT7 sepia approach.
> 
> >The Cone Web site claims Piezography inks outperform MIS-FS ...
> 
> The MIS inks were an older generation of the MIS inks -- pre "UT,"
which is
> the prefix that designates the current MIS B&W inks.  The published Cone
> fade test is irrelevant to the MIS UT inksets -- totally different.
 When
> I've tested the neutral, same-generation inksets against each other
no Cone
> inkset has ever beat an MIS inkset.  Again, I consider them equal if the
> same generation inksets are tested against each other.
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
>