Digital BW, The Print

>Have you done a dip and dunk test with a small strip of paper with the VM
>black ink? I find it to be the blackest of all pigmented inks.
>Possibly you have a mislabeled bottle.

Not dip and dunk, but I did take a paintbrush and apply both the VM black
and the double-density black to the same sheet of paper. They looked
identical, and acceptably black. It turns out (my apologies to MIS and
anyone else offended by my previously low opinion of their black ink) that
the MIS VM black actually works quite nicely; I finally figured out last
night how to match my monitor image properly to the printer output <heel of
hand slapping forehead>, and now the blacks look fine. I'll still try the
Generations black when the cartridge arrives.

-- Nick

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