Digital BW, The Print

"HarryB" <hrblaine@...> wrote:
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> Paul, was it you or someone else that suggested putting a black cartridge in the yellow position on the 1400 - ...


For the Epson K3 printers, my solution to the "Advanced B&W" workflow was to pull the 2400 yellow and insert an MIS carbon "EZ" Y cart.  The chips were even compatible.

For the 1400, I use the C position for my HP neutralizes photo black.  This keeps the densities appropriate for standard Epson driver printing.  The Y position on my 1400 is also the least well aligned. As such, a dense black ink shows some microbanding. 

(Yellow ink is characterized by high gamut but low density.  As such, it is probably less likely to show microbanding defects.  Thus having the Y position be at the lowest end of the priorities when aligning the heads might be intentional.  In short, for at least 2 reasons we may want to keep very light inks in the Y positions of our printers.)


Paul
www.PaulRoark.com