Digital BW, The Print

piezobw schreef:
> Equipoise ink had some issues during its history, John. And Equipoise should certainly never have been used on any paper with an inkjet coating. But unfortunately, most Iris printers used the coatings to get dMax when Hahnemuhle and others offered IRIS sized sheets with coatings. There will be a lot of those prints out there. Maybe even the majority of them. The ones you describe sound indicative of a poor ink choice. In this case, the OEM did not make the better mousetrap - and it was designed to be "archival".
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> By the way, Jamie is about the nicest and fairest guy you could ever meet.
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> Jon Cone
> Piezography
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john" <deanwork2003@...> wrote:
>> Jamie is pretty much retired. After everyone started buying Epson printers I think he just got bored with it all. He does his own work now. He found out I had a Z3100 and wanted to come look at the results. Then the next day he bought the Z3200 and I helped him set it up. 
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>> I think the three Iris 3047s are retired now.
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>> In a related note a collector friend of mine had prints done here on that Iris with the  IRIS Equipoise inks. I was organizing the collection and putting things away. Those black and white prints that were in dark storage have shifted all kinds of strange colors with magenta and green streaks across them. Not pretty. We threw them away. Those are 10 year old prints and quite expensive in their day. Permanence matters. That work is gone.
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>> john
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It was the same mistake that made Lyson's Fotonic and Lysonic dye inks 
on inkjet coated HM papers (and the Lyson rebranded HM papers) so fade 
prone. The ink manufacturer could have known better meanwhile and didn't 
show much respect to its customers then and later on.


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