Digital BW, The Print

Keith,

>I have an Espon C82 ... I was 
>thinking of trying it for B&W prints using the EZ inks throug MIS. 
>...
>Is there someplace that describes or shows the differance in the prints 
>you can achieve by using various Nuetral and Warm combinations?

See the "Tones-Preview" page and file I have for the UT7 inkset.  It's at
http://home1.gte.net/res09aij/Tones-Preview.htm  

The above URL has a downloadable .psd file that has layers on it that you
can drag to an RGB version of a B&W file to preview the tones.  The C82 EZ
inks are "neutral/selenium" (may be just a bit cooler than dead neutral on
EEM) and carbon tones.  They are the same tones that the UT7 inkset prints
with curves that are similarly labeled.  So, the preview file at the above
URL will give you an idea of what you'll be able to print with the C82.

> Is there a way to achieve prints more on the cool side as well?

Moab Entrada Bright White paper or others that print cool will be quite cold
with the "neutral" inks.

(I have not tried any canvas type papers in the printer.)
 
>I believe I've read that the c84 produces slighly better results, ...

These machines under print the black ink with color position inks -- at
least with most paper type settings in the driver.  This lowers the dmax
somewhat.  The C84 does not underprint the black ink with "Plain paper"
selected.  I just don't know if that is also true for the C82.  Other than
this, I don't think the C84 is better.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com