Digital BW, The Print

I believe the bottom fill accessory from MIS and a syringe work.  The cart
will need to have had it's air inlet opened.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:31 AM, remononaz1 <homershannon@...> wrote:

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> OK! I have most of a pint of that solution on hand. What is the best way
> to extract the full strength dye from the Epson cartridges for diluting?
>
> If this works out it would reduce the cost of using genuine Claria inks by
> about by about 50%. Thanks for the tip.
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Paul Roark wrote:
> >
> > For light color inks I use the following dilution percentages: 30% dark
> > ink, 70% clear base.
> >
> > (You'll note that in the "2K2LK" 1400 setup I used a dilution of 1:2
> > (33.3%) for the LK. This was just to make it easier to do without scales.
> > I don't know what such a ratio for the light color inks would do with the
> > profiles.)
> >
> > For the Claria dyes, use the generic dye base. See, for example, footnote
> > 4 on page 1 of
> > http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/1400-Claria-Noritsu-2K2LK.pdf .
> >
> > Paul
> > www.PaulRoark.com
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 7:59 AM, remononaz1 wrote:
> >
> > > **
> > >
> > >
> > > All issues with the 1400 / 1430 cartridges aside, Paul, I'm very
> > > interested in your comment about diluting light magenta ink:
> > >
> > > "You might want to just pull the colors out of the 1430 Claria carts
> and
> > > put it in the MIS carts. If you buy the Claria M (no LM), after you
> dilute
> > > it with the generic base (30% Claria M to 70% base), the cost of the LM
> > > becomes quite reasonable."
> > >
> > > I find that the light magenta and light cyan inks are the ones that get
> > > used up fastest followed by black and yellow. Full strength magenta and
> > > cyan last forever.
> > >
> > > What would the dilution for light cyan be? Which of your base solutions
> > > should be used in this?
> > >
> > > Also, I find that the blues of skies and water with MIS color inks
> tend to
> > > be a bit green. Even if I only use the Epson ink for the light cyan, it
> > > would improve the look of using third-party MIS inks. (In the 1400,
> which
> > > does not seem to care what mix of cartridges I put in it!!!)
> > >
> > >
> > >
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