Digital BW, The Print

On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 12:23  PM, johngeyles wrote:
>

> 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).
>
>
No what you need is the yellow channel gray from the MIS ultratone 
inkset.  This is the lightest gray.  If you replace either cyan or 
magenta in the 2200 (you don't need these for toning...the photo 
magenta and photo cyan and yellow OEM inks are what you want for 
toning).  If you use IJC/OPM, you could then replace the other full 
strength ink (either cyan or magenta) with the 2nd black and you have a 
excellent BW printer that can go to either matte or RC paper stock.

The Ultratone light gray (the yellow channel ink) buys you dotless 
hilights...which the traditional OEM is not capable of in any of the 
output that I've seen from the various drivers on the market.  You 
simply need a lighter gray ink RC compatible ink...and that's what the 
ultratones provide.

Robert