Digital BW, The Print

My R1800 is suffering from perhaps a terminal illness and I may need a new printer. I use Paul's 3MK setup and have been very happy with it. He tells me I can continue that configuration with a 1400 or 1430. I'd like to hear from anyone out there doing this, and what your experiences have been. His preferred setup is the Eboni-6 which apparently gives excellent results but I'm not ready for a more complicated and perhaps more expensive route, with different dilutions of Eboni. Carbon-6 is another viable setup, less expensive, but I'm not eager to "mix my own"!

It seems there's only six, not eight, cartridge positions in the 1400/1430. There's only one black position whereas the R1800 has two plus GLOP. Are you using QuadTone RIP? Which channels do you have set aside for the three black positions? Did you have to write new profiles for the paper you use? 

And earlier on, I recall Paul saying the 1400 worked very well with even one black cartridge, even better than the R1800 with three blacks. I guess in that setup you could use the Epson driver in its Black Only mode, assuming the driver has that option.

Please share your setups and opinions! Thank you,

Paul