Mark,
Interesting, on my 1280 I get beautiful consistent prints with all 4 of the
curves. What paper are you using? I do not have any color crossover with the
toner whatsoever. I suggest you write Paul Roark and perhaps he can offer
some insight and help.
The FS inks were formulated to be used with the Piezo driver or any RIP that
supports the Piezo ink set. Using the FS inks without the appropriate
software that compartmentalizes and profiles the ink and paper will be
problematic. However, I believe there is a workflow on the MIS site that
someone wrote to utilize the Epson driver. I believe it may be the "Wolf
Workflow, but could be mistaken.
For "warm tone" prints and by warm tone I assume that you mean deep brown
and not sepia I would think that the Original MIS Hextones might produce the
warmest prints. The workflow can be a bit daunting, but the 1280 is so good
at printing I believe that you may like these inks. There are workflows
written for them on the MIS sight as well.
The new MIS Sepia-Neutral VM inks should be available soon if not already.
They will use the Roark VM curves from what I have read. The will go from
Sepia to Neutral and are adjustable with the sliders.
Hope this helps, but your options may be limited. Have you tried using the
Epson color dyes for your 1280. They are very stable and on good quality
paper with a good profile should not give much crossover if any at all. You
can print in duotone, tritone, or quadtone. Also you can take your grayscale
image and convert it to RGB and use channel mixer to vary the image tone.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "mgoud" <mgoud@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 7:32 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] best warm inks for 1280?
> After reading many posts on the subject, I recently
> bought a 1280 printer for my bw work.
>
> First I tried the VM inks. Netural and cool tones
> seem to work reasonably well after futzing with the
> curves a bit. But the warm tone curves seem to suffer
> somewhat from crossover effects in the shadows, as
> the blue mixes in prior to the black taking over.
>
> Then I tried the FS inks. Turns out that this inkset
> only uses four shades (not six). And I'm seeing a
> light band just before the black ink kicks in. (I'm
> assuming this comes about because the epson driver
> is blending as if C and M are darker than PC and PM.)
>
> So how best to print warm tones on the 1280? Invest
> in the piezo system, or can anyone share an alternate
> 1280 CIS workflow?
>
> -Mark
>
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