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Re: New System for 2200

2003-07-30 by luisvcool

John, this system that you mention is based on replacing the yellow ink cartridge of 
the Epson 2200 with a light gray?  Is that it?

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "johngeyles" <jge@c...> 
wrote:
> 
> > >> A much, much better option will be using 2200 Ultratone carts in
> the
> > >> 2200 with OPM/IJC.  I've heard word today that the beta 2200
> carts  
> > >> with
> > >> ultratones in them have been released.  Theoretically this would
> allow
> > >> you to only use one ultratone cart (the yellow channel...light
> gray
> > >> ink) in a cart in one of the channels.  You can easily tone with
> the
> > >> Epson OEM inks and light black and either photo black or matte
> black.
> > >> All you would have to do to switch between color and fantastic BW
> is
> > >> switch one of the carts...
> 
> Robert, can you explain this a little more ?
> 
> The UltraTone is MIS product, right, avaliable from inksupply.com ?
> 
> So you'd simply replace UC yellow with an UltraTone for B&W ?
> But you'd still have to swap out Epson_MK and Epson_PK for glossy
> versus matte papers, right ?  What does the UltraTone buy you
> that you can't just get from the normal UC load ?  (All this is
> assuming OPM/IJC).
> 
> Thanks, John

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