80% carbon is going to be very very close to 100%. You have a lot of dots printing in the shadows so you can afford to go to 70% on shade 2 and then bring the others closer especially in the middle and upper-middle (important tonal areas).
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-Walker
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On Jan 30, 2024, at 9:22?AM, Blayne Puklich <blayne@...> wrote:
If I were you I’d use whatever I wanted to. Doing my own linearization it should all work out. If it were me, I would want one toner position that I could use depending on what I was trying to do so I could pull the warmth more cold if needed. It gives me some flexibility.
I would venture to guess one could calculate a perfect set of ink percentages, but I would also venture to guess that wouldn’t be ideal for every image you’d print. I would venture to again guess this is all subjective.
Sorta like Ford vs Chevy. They both sometimes make crap, sometimes make good things, and generally one would be just fine with either. It’s an opinion, and you know what they say about opinions. Everyone has one, just like everyone has an {fill in the blank}.
How’s that for a non-answer? ;-)
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I'd explain it to you, but your brain would explode.
On 29 Jan 2024, at 16:48, Jeff Kew wrote:
I've got my Epson 7800 running matte black ink in refillable carts. I've experimented with a couple different insets, with and without LC/LM toner carts to neutralize the warmth of the carbon ink.
I'd like to take advantage of all 8 channels, and looks like Paul Roark is now recommending NOT using the 2% ink dilution anymore. Is anyone running a similar combination of Matte Black ink across all eight channels? What are your ink dilutions?
Here's an example of what I'm thinking of testing, but not sure what to put in the 8th?
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