Digital BW, The Print

Hi Ted,

First I tried a lot around with my 1290 (= 1280) with Epson inks anly to
learn the hard and expensive way, that no matter how perfect the profile
is, you always have colorcasts in one or the other direction on
different areas of the greyscale. Had I immediately invested in a black
and white printer, this certainly would have been cheaper as I spent
tons of paper and ink experimenting. Than I bought a used 1200 and the
piezo driver. The results with piezography BW were just phantastic but I
spent at least 1/2 of my inks for cleaning cycles... A final attempt to
switching to cheaper inks (Lyson) completely clogged my 1200 and I gave
up quite frustrated. 
After having read a lot here about the MIS full spectrum inks I decided
to try again and bought an 1160. The result using the MIS inks with the
piezo driver are just great and there are almost zero clogging problems.
I think Piezography should think about their ink formulations as the MIS
ones are so much better in terms of clogging!
Anyway, better save your money and finally invest into a separate BW
printer instead of wasting money trying to print BW with your 1280 using
epson inks. You will most likely never be really happy with the results.

Bye

Andreas

P.S. Meanwhile my 1200 is fixed and I might give the variable toned MIS
inks a try...

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: visionone [mailto:ted@...] 
Gesendet: Sonntag, 10. März 2002 18:40
An: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Betreff: [Digital BW] B&W Printing on 1280 with Standard Epson Ink?


I know that most of the discussion on this forum is about third 
party inks and papers.  I was wondering, what is the quality of 
black and white printing using an Epson 1280, standard Epson inks 
and Epson/3rd party papers?

If I don't need 100+ years of longevity, does this combo provide 
reasonable results?  WHat about the quality/flexibility using Duo, 
Tri or Quad tone profiles?

I am trying to figure our whether the standard Epson 1280 will do 
the trick because the cost of an 1160 or 1200 is sky high on Ebay vs 
a new 1280.  This is only a hobby for me. Thoughts?

Thanks in advance,

Ted



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