Digital BW, The Print

Thanks, Paul, it's looking more and more like my next step in quality b/w printing is the 1400 and the ink sets you suggest. Heartening to hear that those Epson reps you talked to said the 220 was "too good" which means there's some life left in mine. No bad signs so far.

I'm very happy with the R1800/3MK approach, in fact my Aardenburg tests for that setup should be due in a couple of weeks. But I feel I might be missing something, hence my interest in the 1400 setup.

So, I do have QTR and use it all the time with the R1800 - happy to hear the current version will do jpgs. But I use the profiles you've made, never made one myself. I need to learn that.

I was a little confused by the term "Black Only". I always took it to mean undiluted Eboni ink. But if that ink is diluted, as in the setup for the 1400, it's still Eboni ink but just not 100% for all carts. Do I have that right? So, in a looser understanding of the term, it's still "Black Only" since the other component is just water, no small amounts of color, even.

Paul

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "pr_roark" <roark.paul@...> wrote:
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> "Paul" <paulmwhiting@> wrote:
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> > ... is there indeed a BO option in the Epson 1400 driver? 
> > Or do you need to use QTR ...
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> You need to use QTR to print black only on a 1400.
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> (By the way, I print "black only" with HP PK in the Cyan position.  The inkset is set up to print a mostly Eboni-6 inkset, but with MIS LK in the LC spot and HP PK in the C spot -- a bit of a split tone there.)
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> QTR is an easy printer utility to use.  I use a Photoshop curve to convert my Gray Gamma 2.2 files to the linear space QTR uses, but there are other ways.  Black only printing is actually the easiest way to get into QTR profiling, which is well worth the effort to learn.
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> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
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