Digital BW, The Print

Ernst,


> ...
> The [Epson] LLK and I guess the Epson PK diluted used straight is not
> creating a
> nice ink color in my opinion. Is that your observation too?
>

Yes.  They appear to be blended carbon + color to make a somewhat more
neutral gray ink than the MIS 100% carbon PK, LK, and LLK.  It has been a
while since I looked at them, but my memory was that the Lab A was too low,
and they just were not warm enough to hit the semi-sepia tone that the MIS
carbons reach on glossy paper.



>
> The Eboni ink I still had is 5 years old so may not be representing
> today's Eboni but I noticed that there is little difference with the HP
> MK visually, from tungsten light to daylight.
>


Eboni does not appear to have changed.

I think if the inks were in diluted form and not at 100% you would see more
of a difference between the HP MK and the Eboni.  I looked at the OEM MKs
early on and all of them were warmer than Eboni.  It's not a huge
difference, but every Lab B unit more neutral matters.  I might add that I
had a question about these the other day and found an old bottle of diluted
(with my generic base formula) Epson MK.  It had been sitting in the
darkroom for years.  Out of curiousity, I poured it through a fine mesh
filter to see if there were obvious problems.  It looked as if it was fine.
 I'd say the generic base could probably be safely used to dilute the Epson
MK to make a somewhat warmer version of Eboni/Carbon-6 (for Epson
printers).  I didn't have any similar old test bottle of diluted HP MK.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com


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