QTR-Quadtone RIP

I concur that dyes are excellent in terms of quality.  I keep a 1400 with
dyes in it for the best glossy cards and brochures.  In my case I use the
Claria/Noritsu dyes, but for negatives, I'm sure the MIS dyes are just as
good.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:45 AM, ebenostby <efo@...> wrote:

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> On the 1400, which I believe is a very close cousin of the 1400, I use MIS
> dyebase inks for digital negatives. It has the advantage that the results
> adhere very well to transparency stock, the negatives I make through QTR
> are very clean and dither-free, and I can produce normal color images as
> well. However, you won't get good monochrome prints (as with Paul's carbon
> methods). I switched from an Eboni inkset after finding that my negatives
> were too fragile.
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> --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "cheesecraft@..." <cheesecraft@...>
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> > I see that Epson Artisan 1430 printers are very reasonable with the cash
> rebate. They have 6 carts so could presumably run on the Piezography
> methodology 3 inkset. But since they are not supported with curves and you
> would be on your own as far as profiles go, I wonder if anyone could
> recommend another 3rd party inkset that could be diluted down to make
> custom ink densities for making smooth dither free digital negatives with
> pretty standard density?
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