Re: [Digital BW] Digest Number 544
2002-03-15 by Bruce
on 3/13/2002 8:48 PM, DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com at DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com wrote: > Message: 17 > Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:35:38 -0600 > From: Harrison McClary <harrison@...> > Subject: Help selecting MIS ink system > >> >> >> Hello Harrison, >> >> I am using the Photo EX with the MIS VM inkset and the MIS CFS >> inking system on Epson Archival Matte paper. I use Paul Roark's >> curves for the Epson 1200 with some minor changes. My >> platform is a PowerMac G4 with serial PCI card as the Photo EX >> is not a USB printer.I am getting very good results. > > > Thanks for the feedback, > > Now one, well two, more questions. > > 1) Would I be better off getting the CFS system or refilling carts? > I will not printing every day, probably a few times a week at most. > Refilling the carts looks like a royal PITA, but will the CFS system > clog if it is not used daily? > > 2) The full spectrum inks look like a nice ink...are they more toward > the warmish side or are they cold? If cold it it a "white" cold or a > "blue" cold...I do not mind white cold, but blue cold is not to my > tastes at all. > > In the "wet" printing I use the Agfa MCC 118 FB paper developed in > LPD dilution 1:3. > > Thanks for any and all help. > -- > Harrison McClary > http://www.mcclary.net I've gone for weeks without printing on my 1200 and 1160 with CIS and Generations and Cone Piezo inks without problems. It might take a couple of cleaning cycles to get going again but that's about it. Refilling is a royal pain in the _________. -Bruce Visit my website at: http://home.earthlink.net/~smthopr