Digital BW, The Print

"photog0946" <photog0946@...> wrote:

> ... thinking of putting the MK7600 into service as a dedicated B&W printer ...
> It would seem that Paul Roark is now in favor of a 100% Carbon system, although I'm not sure that is available for the 7600.

I have used Eboni/Carbon-6 in a 7500 and 7800.  You have to load the carts yourself, but the approach works very well in the K2 printers.

For information on these inksets, see 
http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/Eboni-6.pdf, 
http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/Ink-Mixing.pdf, and 
http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/Carbon-6.pdf

My current setup has some warm glossy carbon in it also.  This is to allow me to print a sepia tone on (most likely) Crane Museo Silver Rag.  
See http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/Carbon-BW-2010.pdf (which also covers the 1400).

> Also, I have quite an array of used carts and would like to know if it's possible to successfully flush and reuse them for the B&W inkset.

Yes.  I use distilled water and then the generic base described at http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/Ink-Mixing.pdf.  A small amount of the intended ink is also used as a final rinse to minimize any dilution of the final inks.  I use a syringe with a modified MIS bottom fill adapter to open the Epson cart valves.  See http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/Modified-Bottom-Fill-Adapter.pdf  

(Note that the 7800 carts are different, having a backflow valve in them.  For the 7800 I simply bought MIS empty carts, which are easily refillable.)

Hope this helps.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com