Digital BW, The Print

Ellie,
You might like to spend some time and research your requiments in the 
forum archieves, there are many posts describing the pros and cons of 
the various solutions. The other factor to consider is that inks and 
rips are continually changing, much due to the efforts of people that 
regually post to the forum. 
You have not said what OS you are using. If it should be OS X then 
you might care to try QTR it's almost free and exremely effective.
Start off with the 7600 and try black only approach. It's very simple 
and very, very effectve. If you email me your address I'll send you a 
print for the cost of the postage if you like. (That goes for anyone 
else that would like to see one) full details of BO printing are 
available on Clayton Jones's web site.

As for the person that could not get decent B/W using Ultachrome 
inks, he should have tried the demo for IP, it's a pig to install, 
but the results are nothing short of spectacular. Once again, I 
prefer BO because of the cost.......
Take care.

Sierra Gold
--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Yeung-Seu Yoon" 
<yeungseuyoon@y...> wrote:
> Hello Ellie--
> 
> One choice you might want to think about is Sundance Septone 
> greyscale inks for the 7600.  I use these inks for the Epson 2200, 
> and love them--they provide lush, rich prints, and with the CFS, 
> no clogging or banding in the 5 months I have used them.  
> These inks also give you a wide range of printing warm to cool 
> grays, independently, in the shadows, midtones and highlights.  
> This can give your work  a lovely split tone look, as well as 
> neutral prints when you want them.  I use Entrada 
> fine art paper, which provides very deep blacks.  I tried (and 
tried 
> and tried and tried) using Epson ultrachrome inks to make black 
> and white prints, but found them so frustrating that I decided to 
> not bother trying to drive them with a RIP like Imageprint.  I was 
in 
> no mood to trust them,  and the taste in my mouth was too sour.
> 
> Cheers, and kind regards
> 
> Yeung-Seu Yoon
> Toronto, Ontario