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Re: I think I want to go back to dye ink.

2007-10-24 by Frank Jay

I just purchased an R1800 and a set of three MIS inks for it. I wish I read posts like this before I made the purchases. I read all I could by knowledgeable people and it seemed the MIS 3 ink set was the way to go. Now I am not so sure. I did not buy the QTR yet and am not sure if I will. I was hoping, and is seemed it would be, a not so complicated way to get good black and whites, but aftere reading a whole string of comments saying black and white on matte paper was disappionting I am re-evaluating my position. I do not like black and white on glossy paper, never used it in my darkroom except for headshots and newspaper work. . To me matte is the way to go for black and white....maybe a little lustre. 
   
  The MIS inks I bought, the three for the R1800, are they the inks people refer to here about using to get good matte prints? You see, I am up on the terms like PK, PKN, EBoni 3-MK and have no cluse sometimes as to what people are talking about. I guess it takes a while to understand the esorteric vocabulary, but when one is trying to learn it gets frustrating. 
   
  Thanks for the help
  frank in NJ
   


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