Digital BW, The Print

Paul Roark wrote:

>John,
>
>I can't imagine you'd damage your printer by trying the UC yellow.  I run
>MIS, UC and Archival inks through all the smaller printers, and they all
>seem very similar and compatible.  I would guess the downside is simply that
>it won't give you the reds you want due to the Archival magenta still being
>there.
>
>  
>

>I wonder what Epson did when they "retrofitted" the printers for the UC inks
>-- besides make money on the process.  
>
To my knowledge Epson never retrofitted the 10K with UC inks, at least 
not the ones that were already delivered. There's no 10600 firmware 
either that can be uploaded to a 10K. This time Epson made money by 
selling new 10600's :-)

I don't think that exchanging the yellow only resolves much of the 
issues with the CF inks. Blues and reds are horrible if compared to the 
MIS 7600 inks, black has a low Dmax.

I'm running MIS 7600 inks in the 10K here.  There's a trick that you 
need to know when you want to refill the 10K cartridges and you also 
need the chip resetter. Mediastreet has empty 10K compatible carts 
though. But if you intend to use the 10600 inks + carts you need to 
replace the chip and it is very difficult to get them off the carts 
without damaging them.

I've used the left over yellow and lightmagenta 10K CF inks to mix a 
sepia for the Eposn 9000 last Friday and get no clogging so far.

Ernst