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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Piezography MPS Black Ink Dmax

2009-06-17 by Richard Smallfield

Is it feasible to make an inkset that has both blacks installed at once? 

thanks,
Richard

At 08:43 a.m. Tuesday 16/06/2009, you wrote:
>Depends upon the workflow. If you use a Piezography generated curve for QTR (which I make) - its quite complex and involves several inks... If you go your own, then its up to how you generate the black.
>
>MPS is a gloss compatible 100% pure pigment black - that I can get up to 2.5 on glossy with it and about 1.54 to 1.6 on Photo Rag depending upon Photo Rag batches...
>
>NK7 Matte black gets 1.64 to 1.68 on Photo Rag - so you give up about .10
>
>regards,
>
>Jon Cone
>Piezography
>
>--- In <mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com>DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "shileshjani" <janishilesh@...> wrote:
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>> Has anybody used this "universal" inkset? I am interested in using the black ink for good Dmax on both matte and glossy papers.
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>> Or is the black ink Dmax generated by composite inks (not K) similar to Paul Roark's numerous approaches?
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