QTR-Quadtone RIP

Tyler is correct (as usual!) 

  :)

Jon

--- In QuadtoneRIP@...m, "Tyler Boley" <tyler@...> wrote:
>
> All pigment inks can settle out if motionless long enough. Right in
> the Epson manual it says to shake the carts before installing, are
> they "blended"? There have been occasional user reports of settling
> pigments from nearly all brands of pigment inks, blended or not, color
> or monochrome, with a sufficiently inactive printer. I have not yet
> seen one report from a K7/6 user, but they haven't been out in the
> world as long as most other pigment sets on the market.
> This is a simple maintainence issue, not an ink choice issue. It comes
> with the large format/pigment ink territory, and is hardly a problem.
> We know to keep our printers minimally active, and if for some reason
> we can't and have an ink settle, it's an easy fix. Shake the carts,
> move the settled ink out of the affected line.
> I have been using the standard piezotone sets in a 9600 for 3 years
> and have never experienced this "problem". I do some physical mixing
> of the sets, and some blending between those in the RIP for carefully
> tweaked hues. I've never had it shift. Also, it's rarely reported, and
> if so by someone unaware of the potential problem who let their
> printer sit for a month or more.
> I think this is a non-issue, but if I'm wrong it must be unique to
> certain inks.
> Tyler
> 
> 
> --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Michael King" <drmrking@> wrote:
> >
> > Jon,
> > 
> > For those of us interested in our K7 for the x8xx Epsons, are the K7
> inks
> > using blended or non blended pigments?
> > Both in the neutral and sepia?
> > I am asking in reference to Paul's posts about blended pigments
> tending to
> > settle out in the feedlines of the larger printers during infrequent
> use and
> > result in tone shifts over time.
> > 
> > Txs,
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
> > 
> > On 10/10/06, Jon Cone <piezobw@> wrote:
> > >
> > >   We released today the Piezography Neutral K7 cartridges for the
> EPSON
> > > 2400.
> > >
> > > http://shopping.netsuite.com/s.nl/c.362672/sc.15/category.585/.f
> > >
> > > Sepia K7 for 2400 to follow soon...
> > > Neutral K6 for 1280 will release shortly there after.
> > >
> > > best,
> > >
> > > Jon Cone
> > > InkjetMall
> > >
> > > 
> > >
> > 
> > 
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> >
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