Digital BW, The Print

hello

several weeks ago I forgot to put the cap on the "Nalgene" bottle of 
my Quadtone 25% ink (Esquad 4-25). Of course the volume has shrunk 
considerably (by about 50%). What's the solvent to be used to bring
it 
up to a 100% again, please.(100% = actual level in the properly
locked 
75% and 50% bottles). Thanks for your help!

mathias muenger

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "chatzebussi" 
<chatzebussi@y...> wrote:
> hello
> 
> several weeks ago I forgot to put the cap on the "Nalgene" bottle of 
> my Quadtone 25% ink (Esquad 4-25). Of course the volume has shrunk 
> considerably (by about 50%). What's the solvent to be used to bring
> it 
> up to a 100% again, please.(100% = actual level in the properly
> locked 
> 75% and 50% bottles). Thanks for your help!
> 
> mathias muenger

Following my opinion only...

I am not familar with that ink, but for myself, I have had so much 
trouble with  Piezo/MIS ink that has aged/dried just a tiny bit that I 
wouldn't even try to fix it. Throwing the bottle away will be ten 
times less the pain than trying to guess the solvent precisely, assume 
you have mixed it properly (it may have been mixed a certain way, how 
do you know?), how do you know that any pigment particles still don't 
have clumps of dried gook on them, maybe the ink left in the bottle 
has changed structually or chemically,...on and on, I could bring up 
if's and but's the whole day. With all the other variables that can 
clog up/ruin a printer outside of bad ink, do you really want to 
rescue one bottle of ink just to add another unknown to your workflow?

And if you get it to print, will it really match prints done before it 
dried up? Just small changes in density or behaviour of ink may change 
print output. 
Jim H.