Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark"
<paul.roark@v...> wrote:
> >... is ... there ... any problem (from a
> >chemistry point of view) in replacing the cyan and light cyan in UT2
> 
> These are the cool gray inks.

Correct.

> 
> >with magenta and light magenta (they are bluish as oposed to cool
> >gray) from UT.
> 
> These are the UT1 toners.  The basic components are the same, but
they have
> a much lower density and higher gamut.  That is, less carbon and
relatively
> more color pigment.
> 
> Chemically, they are compatible.

So I can even mix the two.

> 
> One reason I moved to the more dense UT2 inks is that the UT inkset
required
> more volume of ink on the paper for a given level of image density.
 This
> caused spots on some glossy papers due to overloading the paper. 
So, if you
> plan on printing glossy papers, you're better off with the UT2
densities.
> 
> If the bottles are the same price, you also get more prints per
dollar with
> denser inks.  (Light ink = expensive water; more light ink also = more
> bronzing; use the darkest set of inks the printer can handle and
give the
> smoothness you want.)

I print on photorag only and prefer the extended tonal variations to
economy.
Thanks a lot for the details.
Andu

> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com