Digital BW, The Print

I'm 99% sure that the only difference between the 1400 and the 1430 is the wireless interface. The print functions are the same. There are several good ink strategies that have been developed by Paul Roark. I have used the UT-14 and 5/6UT-14 very successfully. The 2K-2LK is also good. Eboni-6 is appparently the best way to go now, but I have not adopted it yet. All of these techniques are very reliable and do not cause any issues with clogging. I've put some notes on my blog, remononaz.blogspot.com, which I would encourage you to read through. They are on the 'how to' tab. 

To answer your second question, I have been using Lr4 successfully for converting to B&W. It has a color panel that converts to black and white and then you can individually adjust each of the underlaying color tones to darken skies, fix skin tones, etc. It is fast, easy and effective. Occasionally I'll still output to CS4 and do further levels adjustments, but this seems to be less and less necessary. 

All in all, black and white printing on injet printers has truly arrived as a reliable, high quality art. 

Homer Shannon

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "rfsteckmeyer" <steckmeyer@...> wrote:
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> Ten years ago I spent quite a bit of effort trying to print acceptable black and white prints on an Epson 1280 with MIS inks and Paul Roark's guidance.  I gave up when my third set of print heads clogged and I could not get a Dmax above 1.6 with Epson Archival Mat paper.
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> After seeing the progress that has been made I want to try to again.  I have two questions:
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> Is the Epson 1430 output equivalent to the 1400 when both use the 1400 workflow and the MIS Eboni 6 ink set + Arches un-coated watercolor paper?
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> What work flow / software are you using to convert your camera files to B&W for post processing?
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> Thanks for your help
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