Digital BW, The Print

On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 12:44  PM, Robert Morrison wrote:
> Imageprint will not get you there if you want shadow detail.  IJC is
> supposed to come out for windows...and it will be interesting to see 
> if 3rd
> party carts/chips emerge for the 7600.

> If I'm not mistaken, MIS already has the empty carts and chips for the 
> 7600
> http://www.inksupply.com/index.cfm?source=html/9600_refill.html

>  One excellent solution for BW would
> be replacing either the cyan or magenta cart in a 7600 with the MIS
> Ultratone "yellow position" gray cart (this would fix the hilights) 
> and then
> using the remainder of the Epson UC 7600 inks and then using IJC to 
> drive
> it...in my opinion this would be the ultimate black and white machine. 
>  If
> you really want flexibility...get rid of the other full strength color 
> cart
> (either magenta or cyan) and replace it with the other black...then you
> could print on either RC or Matte papers at the drop of a profile!

I would love to try this with the 2200, but still no empty carts 
available.  MIS told me last month that they were expecting to have 
them by the end of May, but obviously not.  I think that the 2200 cart 
supply is also holding up release of the Sundance septones for the 2200.

Carl


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