Digital BW, The Print

Since I am dedicating this printer to B&W printing using the
Black-Only method, I am going to switch over to using clear base stock
in the other carts. It's $8 for 4 ounces at MIS. You want ESC-BASE-4-UC.

I ordered the pre-filled UT-R2 Neutral carts (R2N-CART-SET-K). Those
come in the spongless carts that you can refill and are already
chipped. It boils down to $7.45 per empty cart once you buy the chip,
or $10.95 per cart for one that is already filled and chipped.

This way I have the opportunity to play around with some full-spectrum
printing to compare it against BO and then refill those carts with the
base stock if I stick with BO printing, which it looks like I will.

Black-only prints look great, are cheap and easy to produce. What more
could you ask for?

By the way, I was told by someone at MIS that their cleaning fluid is
base stock diluted 50 percent with distilled water.

To answer your question, I didn't have any problem with the BO eboni
cart playing nicely with the Epson carts. I had not planned to install
them at all but one of the MIS chips was bad and I was forced to
install the original Epson carts while waiting for MIS to replace it
over the holiday.

Good luck!
Jim


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Sam McCandless
<samcc@v...> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Jim, for posting your BO report on your experience with the
R200.
> 
> I've installed my R200 refurb but haven't yet installed Eboni or 
> replaced my image monitor. So I'm going to be following you and 
> Clayton at a comfortable distance. But I hope to keep you all in 
> sight, and I appreciate the encouragement.
> 
> Is the black ink from MIS's Eboni spongeless cart playing nicely with 
> the Epson color inks in the other five carts? I'm wondering whether 
> to replace those color carts too and, if so, what with? But I ordered 
> another set of all six Epson carts from Atlex.com so I could take my 
> time.
> 
> Thanks again.
> --
> Sam
> 
> 
> At 8:04 AM +0000 1/8/06, jim0266 wrote:
> >
> >Clayton,
> >
> >I wanted to chime in and give my findings for the best settings I've
> >discovered for BO printing on my newly acquired R200 refurb from Epson.
> >
> >My printing so far has been done with Eboni from MIS in their
> >spongeless carts on Red River's 50lb premium matte C2S paper.
> >
> >[snip]
>