Digital BW, The Print

I just received my UT7 inkset today.

I'm not using the MIS carts, but cleaned and refilled Epson cartridges,
so I can't report on that part of the setup. I like the Epson carts
because they seem to last practically forever and they're self-sealing
so I don't have to worry about spilling ink when I take them out.

The print quality is excellent. I don't actually have too many comments
on this, except that the quality is as good as I've come to expect from
my previous UT1 inkset. The additional tones possible with the sepia
toner is a really feature though. More about that below.

I like being able to print on glossy papers without switching inks. It's
painfully slow to print at 2880dpi, but the deep blacks really do make a
big difference on some images, so the wait is worth it. I guess now I'll
have to look into getting a spray to eliminate the bronzing. Also, the
pizza wheel marks are present as always, anyone know how to get rid of
those on the 2100? I've seen removal instructions for other printer
models, but not this one.

What's interesting is that with the new dual-toner capabilities it's
possible to replace the sepia toner with other tones. 

What I did was to replace the sepia toner with a cyan-toned gray  and
then used that to carefully cool down the "selenium" tone a bit. I like
having this ability to not only vary between warm and cool, but also
adjust the type of cool tone I get. 

One thing I wanted to try was to match the tone of Eboni in BO on
various papers, and I found that with the dual toner this was possible.
On Somerset Velvet Enhanced I was able to accurately match the neutral
tone of Eboni by adding slight amounts of cyan toner in the print. Best
of all, I can still use all the curves from cool to carbon with no
change in tone from the standard inkset, the only thing I lose is the
sepia toning capability, but I rarely print sepia toned images anyway,
so no great loss.

The toner I mixed was 84% UT7 light cyan and 16% MIS 7600 cyan. I just
used the ratios for the sepia toner ink on Paul's info page and replaced
the yellow and magenta with cyan.

Many thanks to Paul for creating another great inkset! So far I'm very
happy with the results.

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Daniel Staver
http://daniel.staver.no