Digital BW, The Print

Charles, Idon't use VM, but I had something similar - the fault was merely
that the rubber lid supports had slipped too forward and the lid was resting
on the ink tubes...
Julian

----- Original Message -----
From: "charles_bandes" <byronbulb@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 10:01 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Sudden tone problems after switching to CIS - help!!


> Hi again
>
> (I am printing with a 1280 on a Mac with MIS VM ink, using mac curves
> and the settings listed on the workflow page, nomorecarts CIS)
>
> So I finally installed my CIS, and now I'm having huge printing
> problems - I was getting good tone and good step wedges when I was
> using carts, but now that I have changed over, all of a sudden my
> shadows have a horrible solarized look. Stepwedges show a dark band
> around 70% when using the warm curves, and a generally stepless range
> between around 80-60% using the neutral curve. Basically, something is
> wrong with my darker midtones - really really wrong.
>
> I have quadruple checked that my ink bottles are in the correct
> positions. I have run purge patterns which also show that the colors
> are coming from the correct locations (the purge patterns from the new
> inks seem to be denser across the board than the ones from the carts
> though, for what it's worth)
>
> So my question - do I have bad ink? Do I need new curves? Am I just
> totally totally screwed?
>
> I invested in this system initially to print a large portfolio of
> prints that I need to do over the next month or so, so I definitely
> need to fix this asap, by whatever means needed.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -CB
>
>
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