Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John Brownlow wrote: > I heartily recommend a CIS bulk inking system from > www.nomorecarts.com and some nice third party inks like Generations or > MIS. > This is especially true with the "chipped" cartridges for the 870, 1270, 890, etc. I slowly eased my way into B+W digital printing with a 870 and the MIS Variable Mix cartridges. After going through six cartridge sets, I simply have to bit the bullet and get a CIS. The chipped MIS cartridges have been a real pain the ass - 50% of the time they are not recognized by the printer. This leaves me to yank out the cartridge, replace the MIS chip it with an OEM Epson chip, replace the MIS cartridge, purge, print, purge, print....until I get a good nozzle pattern. This wastes a whole lot of expensive ink. I've written a letter to MIS explaining the problem and returned a few faulty chips, but I haven't gotten a response from them yet. Otherwise, using one of the RGB workflow methods (I prefer the slightly warm curve on Epson Archival Matte or Epson Premium Semigloss) I'm convinced that archival Quadtone (or in my case Hextone) printing is the way for me. A larger A3 printer and a CIS is on the horizon. Again, like John mentioned before, not going the Piezo route meant it took a lot of fussing around playing with curves, papers and various films and developers before I got what what I thought was a really good print. The early results were perfectly acceptable, just not amazing. This was as much a scanner issue as it was an ink issue I'm sure. My secret to finally getting an amazing looking inkjet print was ditching Tri-X for a finer grained film - in my case APX100 in Microdol-X. If I need more speed, I go with TMax 400. Something about APX100 and this developer, my scanner (2820 dpi Minolta + VueScan) and the MIS-VM inks makes a inkjet print that more than equals a"wet" print. Something that makes you step back and say "wow". My thoughts. William - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html