Digital BW, The Print

>> Definitely someone else's: the warm tone and the clogging have put me
>> permanently off PiezoBW inks.
>
>I thought you said the problem was with Epson's black ink.

Tyler -

I got problems with all sorts of ink!

I am judging the Epson black ink (K cartridge) based on prints made a month
or so ago using an 870. Those prints, on Epson Heavyweight Matte, have
shifted to an extremely disagreeable reddish brown, having spent their
lives sitting on my desk in an environment no harsher than a 75W desk lamp
and indirect daylight from a window 6 feet away. My fear is that the Epson
1160 K ink, although it is the blackest I have seen yet, will behave
similarly.

For K ink only printing, one of the ones I would have thought
>worth trying was Piezo. I think most of the warm tone is from the lighter
>inks and normal 4 ink Piezo driver use. Don't know,
>never done a K ink only print from any of these inks but Epson's, and that
>was a long time ago.

The prints I've done with Piezo inks have shifted so radically toward warm
(a greenish rather than reddish brown this time) that I can't imagine the
black-only would be stable. Besides, the clogging problems (and the price)
put Piezo inks out of contention for me right away.

Please see my other message of this morning (replying to Todd) for
questions about black inks.

-- Nick

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