Anyone who is willing to mix inks can make any number of Claria-like inksets. The Epson-made Noritsu dry-lab inks appear to be good sources the claria type dyes.
Some of my expamples are at
I formulated a generic base for the Epson Claria/Noritsu dyes. See footnote 9 of http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/4000-Noritsu-BW-Variable-Tone.pdf .
MIS sells this at http://www.inksupply.com/product-details.cfm?pn=PR-CLEARBASE-PT . (I do not get any royalties, etc. and have no financial incentive to "sell" this.)
The Epson-made Noritsu dyes are available from the dry-lab ink sellers. See footnote 8 of http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/4000-Noritsu-BW-Variable-Tone.pdf .
The LM I use is just 30% Noritsu M and 70% base. You can use similar dilution steps to make the LK (30% K) and LLK (9% K). It works great. LC is probably also 30% C, but I'll be mixing and testing that within a week (just took delivery of the Noritsu C today).
I may well load a color inset into an Epson 4000, not that I want to print color, but because printing B&W glossies may be best done with about half black/gray and half color dye inks. I published a QTR profile some time ago for the 1400 OEM Claria set that does this -- half BO and half color. It works very well. Half black controls the metamerism/color constancy issues sufficiently.
If you head down this road, plan on spraying the prints to protect them. Dyes appear to need it. (But, how it affects the colors is an open question.) The sprayed BO Claria test print (Canson baryta paper) in the http://aardenburg-imaging.com/ tests did much better than the sample that was un-sprayed.
Also, be mindful that dyes have many more variables that impact their longevity than is the case with pigments. There are a lot of unknowns here. I intend to continue to work on making better B&W glossys with these and similar inputs.
Paul
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 5:08 PM, <lestihor@gmail.com> wrote:
Paul and others,
Does anyone have a recipe for dye ink sets using Claria or Noritsu inks for the Epson 3800 printer? If so, are either of these inks available for purchase in retail amounts or only in bulk amounts? I have used Cone's InkThrift inks, but I found that light blacks tend to have an unpleasant bluish cast.Les