Hi all,
I've been enjoying printing with the Ebvt inkset on my 1400. Thanks Paul R. for all your wonderful work with these inks over the years - you allowed me to retire my wet darkroom rig!
I9;ve been inspired to revive my old 7600 to try with carbon inks, and now that I've got all but one nozzle clear (I'll get there!), I'm considering what inkset to try in it. I'm leaning toward trying the new Glossy variable tone setup.
Would this be the way to lay out the inks?
Y - Canon based blue toner
K - MK (Ebony 1.1)
LK - PK (MIS PK)
LM - 9% PK
LC - 15% PK
M - 30% PK
C - 50% PK
I need to take a look at Paul R's Glossy profiles to use at a starting point for doing my own characterizations and profiling.
I intend to use QTR for my printing, but it would be nice if the Epson driver would also print something reasonable.
Any gotchas with this setup, that will potentially trip me up? One concern I have is whether having both MK and PK carts will be an issue. If I do a lot of matte printing and the PK sits idle, for example, will I set myself up for clogging problems?
Also, is the quality of a matte print with this inkset (using the MK as K) as good as the pure matte setup of Ebvt, considering we are using PK for the dilute inks? I will probably be doing mostly matte printing, but would like the ability to produce the occasional glossy print for unglazed display.
Thanks in advance,
Neil
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Re: [Digital BW] Glossy VT on 7600
2017-03-28 by Paul Roark
That should work fine. See http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/7800-Glossy-Carbon-Variable-Tone-2016.pdf . You have one less spot, so you're -- very logically -- omitting the second MK I have in my setup only for printing on Arches watercolor paper (uncoated).
The quality of the prints will be fine.
I must say, however, that while I put this setup in my 9800 because I am going to have a show at Gallery Los Olivos in September 2017 that will feature large canvases, I pulled the glossy inkset from my 7800. Keeping two wide format printers from clogging with the glossy inks is more than I want to bother with. So, the 7800 is back to the much more reliable Eboni VT -- no glossy inks with binders (glue) in them to clog the machine. With these glossy inks, you really want to run the printer regularly. A friend with OEM Epson inks in his wide format printer runs his twice a week. I generally get away with once a week, but it's not good old Eb6 in there, and there is a big difference in the hassle factor. After the Sept. show and the followup sales (if any), I suspect I'll pull the glossy inks from the 9800 also.
Paul
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 6:26 AM, fneil.simms@... [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> wrote: