Digital BW, The Print

Hi Alex,

EAM was one of my favorite papers, and so many of the "alternate 
workflows" are optimized for it. Lately, with all the talk about EAM 
not being so "A", I've been reluctant to use it for anything but 
proofing and playing ;>)  Personally, I haven't seen any of the 
yellowing problems, but I don't want my customers to either. I'll 
have to give the RR PremMatte a try...

I was surprised to hear that you're able to use the "high speed" 
setting and get such good results. That was one hesitation I had, 
since the 2000P on regular speed gets to be pretty slow. 
The 'source.space/print.space' option is in Photoshop, when you 
hit "Print with Preview" and set up the color space translations for 
the source/driver. Are you printing your finished B&W image as 
an "Adobe RGB" output or "Grayscale"? Do you have your printspace set 
to "Same as Source"  -- that would be my guess...

Interesting about mixing the chips -- I ordered an FSE inkset today 
from MIS and a set of fresh CFS carts for it -- I asked them about 
the chips and they again told me I had to make sure not to mix the 
2000P's with the 12X0's. I just smiled. At $30 for a pair of "always 
full" chips, I can understand why they would want to follow 
manufacturer's recommendations ;>)  MIS is great to deal with, so I 
don't mean to slight them at all -- just business, you know...

I should have the inks by the weekend so I'll let you know how I 
fare. Thanks for all your help on this. I've been focused on my wide-
carriage work, but the next steps that I want to take are rather 
involved so it will be nice to see if I have the same good luck 
you've had with this combination. It will keep me printing while I 
set up a Linux box and QTR ;>)

Thanks again to you and Tom and error for this thread -- I hope some 
other folks have gathered some good information as well...

Kind regards,
Richard 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "B. Alex Pettit 
Jr." <a_pettit_jr@y...> wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> I really only use EAM on the 2000P and have optimized 
> the workflow for that, although the RR PremMatte seems
> to give identical performance, but a brighter white.
> 
> Yes, EAM setting, Photo quality, High Speed. 
> Did not find a 'source.space/print.space' option ..
> 
> And, actually, I have mixed the K and Color chips together,
> reset and installed them without discression: they work
> fine.
> 
> Print a 100 step curve and see if there are any areas needing
> adjustment. I only found that the K saturated a bit early. I
> just created a curve I use ( in Picture Windows ) as a final
> adjustment before printing. (a shift from 0-100% to 0-98% ).
> 
> I was considering selling the 2000P also- just to free up some 
space 
> in the room, but they are selling so cheaply, and the print quality 
> is superior to the 3000, so for small prints It it a Keeper.
> 
> Please post your results !!
> 
> ( oh, in my case anyway, the MIS FS inks did not work well
> at all in the 3000 .... major fine banding and poor 
> nozzle tests )
> 
> Best,
> Alex
> 
>