Digital BW, The Print

I just got my 1400 and my MIS eboni-6 inks are coming in a couple days so no
direct experience yet, however I chose this route after reading a number of
threads and asking both Paul and Clayton directly on their thoughts.  If the
1400 was $500 and the 1100 $129 then it might be worth considering but for
less than $100 difference?  On picoliter size along it's a no-brainer I
think....

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On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:44 AM, kwalsh74 <kwalsh74@...> wrote:

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> I don't have experience with the 1100 or any of the 4-ink printers, but I'd
> also say you should look very closely at the 1400. 6-ink and 1.5 pL drops
> makes it an amazing B&W printer (compared with the 3 pL drops of the 1100).
> $189 with free shipping from Amazon makes it not much more than the 1100 at
> $129. Keep in mind, a box of quality 13x19 paper is going to be $80 minimum!
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> Because of the small drop size the 1400 can do amazingly good prints with
> just 100% Eboni (no dilutions) or very smooth prints with just one
> additional dilution. This makes either buying or mixing dilutions easy as
> you don't have to do so many. You do probably want to use QTR instead of the
> epson driver for these approaches. On the other hand if you really only want
> to do a C4 approach the 1100 would be fine - as long as it can handle
> thicker papers. The 1400 has a track record of being able to handle fine art
> papers when fed carefully, I'm not sure anyone has experience with the 1100
> yet.
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> Paul Roark has lots of info on workflows for 1.5 pL printers and I believe
> is currently using a few 1400's.
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> Ken
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