Digital BW, The Print

> > I'm using a 2100. I've tried the eboni, universal, photo and light
> > blacks from MIS without any problems at all. The only problem I have
> > is with roller marks on Ilford Smooth Pearl, and to a lesser extent on
> > Epson Premium Semigloss, but I get that with Epson inks as well so I
> > think it's unrelated. All the matte papers I've tried so far look
fine.
> Interesting that you have no problems. Would be nice to see a set of
> grey carts for 2100/2200 manufactured. At very least the Y position
> would give some better quad options than Epson UC right now. One could
> pop the Epson Y back in for color, and swap it out for brand X light
> grey for BW-???

That's a really good idea actually! And I just tried it. First i
simply put a light black cartridge in the yellow slot. Didn't work.
The cartridges are made like a key in the front, each color having a
different pattern so they don't fit in each others places. I proceeded
to cut the light black cartridge with a knife until it fit. This was
less scary than it sounds like. I only had to cut off three small
plastic parts to make it fit. But now the printer just gave me a red
light in the yellow position, so I switched the chip in the light
black with the one from the yellow. Now it works.

After a perfect nozzle check I tried a print, but I don't get anything
resembling neutral. Everything looks bright, saturated purple now.
From this I can tell that the epson driver must use a really large
amount of yellow to make its pseudo-neutral color. No wonder we have
metamerism problems. It's highly possible this could be fixed with a
prober curve, but it'll take some time I think. I'll report back if I
make any progress.
 
> Have you tried any experiments with lifting the sheet metal plate that
> is spring loaded and contains all the pizza wheels and rollers? Or
> counterbalancing the spring, putting a wedge under the plate, etc? I
> haven't much of a problem here, but I use mat. Since the 2200 has this
> "feature" though and the 1280 I own doesn't spring load all the wheels
> in one plate, I thought it might be a neat trick for someone. Would
> have to make sure counterbalace/wedge didn't interfere with head
> sliding past...

Thanks for the tip! I'll try it next time I want to print on glossy.
Sounds like it might work.