Digital BW, The Print

A lot of people seem to have had that problem to some degree or 
other, and not only on the 1280. My solution was to scrap the VM 
inks and mix my own with black and clear base stock. It has taken a 
dozen or more cart refills and several weeks, but I finally have an 
inkset that doesn't posterize, doesn't 'dump' the shadow values, 
uses the Epson driver, needs only a light tweak curve to smooth out 
the tonal scale, (as in no workflow) and is essentially WYSIWYG. 
So far, I've only been able to test it on my 780 and 1280, and would 
like to test it on a few more 6-ink machines before deciding what to 
do with the formula. Unfortunately, I can't afford to spend time and 
money to ditribute a bunch of carts, so if anyone is interested in 
trying this,I will need at least a virgin empty color cart, postage 
round-trip, and preferrably a contribution towards the cost of the 
ink as well. Which by the way is considerably cheaper than bying it 
pre-mixed, an incidental bonus. I would be willing to first mail out 
a few 5x7 print samples (send stamps?) to those seriously interested 
in tesing this for me, if you need convincing that it works. Please 
contact me off-list, I'll take the first 5 people with a desktop six-
ink printer( meaning no gas-hog 7X-9x machines), though not more 
than two of them should be 1280s and I'd like at least one of the 
1280s to be running on a Mac.
 
I hope a few of you take me up on this, I think you'll find it 
worthwhile!

Steve K

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Matt M 
<matt1729@r...> wrote:
> I am on a mac running 9.1 and cannot get the 1290 driver to see my 
> usb port at all. I am trying to fix the problem of posterization 
with 
> the 1280. Anyone else have this problem?
> 
> Matt McKee
> 
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