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How dark should dark gray be

How dark should dark gray be

2004-04-24 by skundell

I recently changed inks on my 7000, using quadtones, printing with 
Imageprint. My grayscale ramp is strange, appearing normal from 0 to 
80%, then rapidly going very dark almost to D-max, then lightening to 
about 75% density, and finally rapidly dropping to black. Has anyone 
had this problem?

A second question relates to the expected densities for quadtones. 
When I do a straight cmyk print, it appears that my dark gray looks 
like about 80% density. I thought that dark gray in quads was much 
closer to black. Paul, what are the approximate densities of each 
gray in a quadtone set of the "traditional" Piezo type?
THanks
Stephen

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