Digital BW, The Print

I don't know how much time you have to spare, or what your time is
worth but you would be reinventing the wheel starting off with a
printer that no one else is using for b&w. SWAG would be that you
could spend 300 hours and $200 in ink and paper trying to save buying
a $400 printer. I have a new HP inkjet sitting in the original box in
the closet and two Epsons that I print photos with. Buying the first
Epson (the 2nd was a deal too good to pass up) was a smart move. 

Buy a 1280 or 890, get VM inks in carts from MIS, download Paul
Roark's workflow and curves for free from the MIS site
www.inksupply.com and go printing. Use your Kodak / Lexmark for text
printing until the ink runs out, then give it to a friend. 

Bob Michaels

 --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com,
"jaeder_instrument" <clint@j...> wrote:
> Hello-
> I only heard of quadtone and sixtone a few days ago, after searching
around on how to print proper black and white photos via computer.
> 
> My question is, must I have an epson, or can I use the inksets in
any inkjet photo printer, as long as some kind of 'workflow'-(whatever
that is) is created for that printer?
> 
> I have a six color Kodak by Lexmark Personal Picture Maker 200
(great name, marketing- at least they didn't call it "Gold").  
> 
> Lexmark and Kodak both seem not to want to take credit for making
this printer, and carts are high- available, much like aps and disc
film, only from kodak it seems... Kodak can't even be bothered to make
an osX driver for the thing...
> 
> Can I just slap the sixtone inkset in the empty carts and trial and
error until it works, or will the printer burst into flame if it's not
an epson?