Digital BW, The Print

Hello Don,
I am using MIS original black pigmented bulk inks in a
dedicated Epson 1200 printer. I did not buy the Piezo
Software Driver because it was too expensive to make
my printer work simply because  the ink companies put
the various shades of grey in ink positions to force
you to buy the software in the first place. So, I put
the various shades of grey into ink positions where I
thought they should be.
   I put the 75% ink into the cyan and magenta ink
positions...45% ink into the photo cyan and photo
magenta ink positions...25% ink into the yellow ink
position...For Epson Premium Luster Photo Paper, I set
the Epson 1200 Printer on Photo Paper...
Ink: Color...1440 DPI...Error Diffusion...Microweave:
on...Color Management: Color Adjustment...Mode: Photo
Realistic...Brightness: +20...Contrast:
-10...Saturation, Cyan, Magenta and Yellow is set at
0...
  I import my image in the RGB Mode Desaturated.
Actually, there are several other ways to get your
image into RGB mode such as Image/ Adjust/ Channel
Mixer starting with Red at 60%, Green at 20% & Blue at
20%...I make sure that the percentages add up to
100%...I just play around with it to get the right
looking grey scale.
  Anyway, these are my questions. (1) Are these black
inks from Lyson pigmented. (2) If so, do you fill your
own cartridges. (3) How are the cartridges from lyson
filled according to ink postions. (4) Are there any
adjustments that you make in order to have your prints
to be close to what you see on your screen...I'd love
to hear your feedback...

Grady Carter    
--- Cameraguy5 <frenchpassive@...> wrote:
> You are not alone! I started out with Luminos
> monochrome inks, 
> and then switched to Lyson when I found out they are
> the same 
> inks and in fact make them for Luminos....and are a
> lot cheaper! 
> I've tested numerous papers and have have finally
> settled on 
> Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, which gives the best results
> with these 
> inks. For a semi gloss look, I've found that the
> Epson Luster is 
> very good. I'm using an Epson 1200 with a continuous
> flow 
> system from CIS and buy the inks in bulk (4oz
> bottles), which 
> makes the inks even cheaper. I've had no problem
> with these 
> inks clogging my heads, and everything works like a
> dream.
> I still don't understand why nobody on here seems to
> know about 
> the Lyson inks, or if they do, they're not
> discussing it, especially 
> considering you don't have to do any tweaking to get
> great prints. 
> I just convert my color image to gray scale and then
> back to RGB 
> and print as normal.....no fuss, no
> muss.....couldn't be easier! 
> By the way, I'm a professional photographer, and DO
> know what 
> a good prints looks like, and am very picky when it
> comes to print 
> quality....and this delivers.
> Happy printing!
> Don
> 
> 
> 


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