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Re: Quick question about UTBO (R1800)

2008-09-05 by the_des_bois

Hello Paul,

I've abandonned for the time being trying to find a strong enough 
surfacant for C-6 in the R1800. I'm all out of Eboni... ;-)

Color CIS is back on and still confused and not happy with color 
printing. BW is my way. ;-)

I am very interested in your "Eb6-quad setup" for the R1800. Ready to 
order some more Eboni from MIS and might as well include some E-6 in 
the order.

Have you built QTR profiles for it yet? Or could share some of the 
1400 QTR profiles to adapt for the R1800 (by doubling up some inks?) ?

I do not want to retire my R1800 the one sample I have is very good, 
paper feeds very well, never had any clogs etc. Just love the "little" 
thing.

Many thanks,

Denis

Paul Roark wrote:

...At any rate, aside from using the dilutions that MIS already has on 
the
self, this effort started with a clean piece of paper. What's rather
interesting is that the final result looks a whole lot like the 
original
PiezoBW quad arrangement -- 2 very light inks, then a large dilution 
gap to
a rather dark C and MK.

I've pulled my 1800 out of storage and will set it up with this Eboni-
6
arrangement. With the 3-MK still in it, I'll be curious how the QTR 
sliders
work to allow further tone control. Needless to say, at least on the 
1400,
the Eb6-quad setup makes extremely smooth prints.

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