Paul W.,
Always run some ink in every position. My point about the Eb6-Y was that, particularly in a 1.5 pl printer (very small droplets), a 2% Eboni MK, 98% clear base is way more dilute than needed. So, for that plus other reasons (like control with the Epson driver) the Y position is the best place for a cool toner.
Another reason I';m tending to not use the 2%/98% dilution is that with Eboni v. 1.1, it';s not more neutral. With the original Eboni, on a number of papers, the Eb6-Y was more neutral than the middle-dilutions.
I'm surprised you're finding the Eb6 prints not warm enough now. Didn't you print with the 1800 3MK setup for years? Eboni MK by itself makes by far the most neutral 100% carbon prints.
If you want to go warmer and never want to go more neutral, you could use the Y position for a warm toner. Someone I communicated with lately was going to use Epson Yellow there. Frankly, like the cool toner, I never found a single-ink toner that I thought had the right color to be a toner. That is why I mixed the sepia toner with M and Y pigments for one of MIS';s older inksets. If you're interested in a warm toner, I'll dig out the formula for the sepia toner I thought did the best job with regard to print tone. (If it were just me, I'd use Canon or HP pigs, however. My sepia toned prints are fading noticeably.)
Paul
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 5:22 PM, paulmwhiting@... [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Thanks, rdeloe, for the clarification,
Interesting to learn that the Y is no longer needed. Upon studying the pdf more carefully, I see where he pointed that out, I apparently missed that.
But... if the Y position is not used, do we need to worry about that nozzle clogging from dis-use?
I really should not worry about a lot of this till I use up my Ebon 1.0 and start with 1.1. It was helpful to read your posts, I think we're at about the same point on the learning curve - but I think you're a bit ahead of me!
Regards,
Paul