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Re: [Digital BW] HP Vivera pigments

2008-12-04 by Tyler Boley

an emphatic ditto. Last spring Paul sent me a print using one of his
K6 setups that was in the same realm. Otherwise for matte, everything
else is playing catch-up.
Tyler
http://www.custom-digital.com/


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john dean"
<deanwork2003@...> wrote:
>
> Might be able to? I've had three old Epsons, including a killer mono
> 10K with them running with Piezography and QTR and Studio Print for
> years. I'm going add a 9600 after the holidays for special mixes. You
> buy these inks in bottle form and use funnel fill carts and they are
> amazing and even in Epson printers they don't clog at all. As much as
> I like the Vivera inks, for matte papers the K7 is way more beautiful
> and subtle tonalities, and available in many hues now. I don't see
> anything that touches it.
> 
> john
> 
> > Also, there are a lot of old Epsons out there that people might be 
> > able to turn into very good carbon printers.  I've got the K and 2% 
> > ends fairly nailed for my matte 100% carbon tastes, but for the older 
> > large format printers the middle densities are presenting some 
> > problems.  If the HP greys look good, they might be a solution.  
> > We'll see.
>

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