QTR-Quadtone RIP

I've used Cone's inks from nearly the beginning and they've always
been first rate. The K7 shows two noticeable improvements that haven't
been mentioned here yet, I think.

One, on most of the printers I use (1160, 3000, 7000) the Cone Quad
tone inksets would always show visible dots at some point in the scale
from black to white, usually somewhere in the 15-25% range.Usually it
was a small range (18-22% for example)> If an image didn't have any of
this particular tone in it then the print would truly be dotless. It
was rarely a problem, but there were images that suffered from visible
dots. And by this I mean that close inspection of an image (from 8
inches away) would allow one to see the dots, usually after looking
for a while. Generally this did not detract from the image at "normal"
viewing distances, but a fly in the ointment none the less. The new
inks are truly dotless throughout the scale, and inspection through a
loupe shows what, to my eye, looks like a film grain pattern and not a
 dot matrix. This is a big improvement.

Two, the detail in images is much sharper with this inkset. A print
from the same image at the same size shows greater fine detail,
through a loupe. I shoot in the city, and street signs, window grills,
bricks and mortar all are sharper when printed with the K7 inkset.
It's not a huge difference, but then many of us would contact print
negatives in the old days in order to achieve a sharper and more three
dimensional quality to our images. Not a huge improvement, but
substantial.

I am very happy with the 2200 and the K7's and I'm looking forward to
putting these inks into my 7000 when that opportunity is available.