Digital BW, The Print

As it turned out, I was working with the printer tonight and had some time to try this out. I used my 1430, which is loaded with MIS color ink. I used some Staples matte paper that I had for contact sheets. I followed the instructions exactly. 

Well, it works. But not as well as using UT-14 or Carbon-6. The dark tones are kind of blocked up and mid tones are rather washed out. I think if your were just dabbling in black and white, this would be sufficient, but it's not adequate for serious printing. 

I posted a scan of the print at http://sdrv.ms/14cmWes . The top image is the print with the color ink and the bottom image is with UT-14 on Red River Polar Matte with a known good ICC printed some time ago. (Yes, I should have cleaned my scanner!) Zoom in and you can see how blocked up the ceiling of the cave is and how washed out the sky in the canal scene is. The coloration of the two images is pretty accurate.

Otherwise, for starting out and not expecting too much, this is not really too bad.