Digital BW, The Print

Nick H. Nugent wrote:

> I was in the process of creating QTR curves for Kirkland glossy  papers
> for the 1160/MIS-VM and 1160/MIS-UT-FS-Eboni combination and found
> the darkest patches for the dark gray ink (cyan position) register at 1.86
> and 2.06 in dMax respectively.

How do those figures compare with the K in those ink sets, Nick?

And am I right in guessing that the C position inks don't cause bronzing on
glossy paper? Is that the reason for your excitement? (Sorry, perhaps I should
have been paying closer attention).

It would be terrific if you could share your curves with the 'community' here,
once you get them right.

Peter Marquis-Kyle
www.marquis-kyle.com.au

Hello Peter,

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter
Marquis-Kyle" <peter@m...> wrote:
> How do those figures compare with the K in those ink sets, Nick?

The PK still gives the highest dmax on Kirkland at 2.23.

> And am I right in guessing that the C position inks don't cause 
> bronzing on glossy paper? Is that the reason for your excitement? 
> (Sorry, perhaps I should have been paying closer attention).

Yes.

> It would be terrific if you could share your curves with the 
> 'community' here, once you get them right.

Sure. I will update my QTR-info web page with links for downloading
profiles I have made. This is probably the most exciting discovery for
me as I like to print on both matte and glossy.

Here are the numbers:

Media        PK        UTFS-Cyan    VM-Cyan
======       =====     =========    =======
Kirkland     2.23      2.03         1.9 (cool toner lowers dmax)
SmoothPearl  2.23+     2.12         1.88 (same as above)

Even at 1.9 dmax the VM-Kirkland curve yields beautiful prints. The
FS-Kirkland curve is absolutely fantastic. Visually the two prints are
very comparable when placed side by side. You can't tell that there
were printed without K  :)

--nick