Digital BW, The Print

Stu, if you were getting major clogs there was a problem with th e1160. I
had one like that - got rid of it under warranty - I now have two that have
never clogged, and they get hard use. I get an slight microband very rarely,
but a cleaning cycle and letting it sit with 2/3mm of windex works. The QC
on cheap Epson printers is crap - my 2 refurbs are superb, because they were
checked again. The Cone dither pattern disable some of the built in
forgiveness in the system so the 1160 has to be up to par. I use Kodak
Ultima when I went gloss. I have to spray it with a fixative within a few
mins of printing. All inkjets leave ink on top of the surface of glossy
papers. I sometimes get microbanding on glossy papers.

Julian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stu Rosner" <sturos@...>
To: "yahoo digital bw" <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 2:51 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] BW printing problems/ Anyone overcome these??


> Dear All;
>
> I have been trying for about a year to get acceptable results making black
> and white prints using Epson printers and easily available paper.
>
> At first I bought and tried Jon Cones Piezography system, but found that
> there were two problems that I could not get around:
>
> 1) the inks continually clogged the print heads terribly. there are all
> kinds of fixes for this, revolving around soaking the pads with Fantastik,
> and doing all kinds of other stuff, but it's an incredible waste of time
and
> money.
>
>
> 2) Even more significantly, the Cone Inks do not work well with anything
> besides a really flat paper.
> I've found that the ink does not take to Epson's premium luster, a paper
> that most closely emulates Ilford Pearl surface paper, a paper I've used
and
> loved for 20 years.
>
> I had bought an 1160 printer, and dedicated it to black and white, but
since
> the Cone system has pretty much flamed out, I have been printing off an
> Epson 1270 using color inks to make black and white prints, and the
results
> are OK, but not great..the blacks are really purple-y, and overall the
tone
> is cold. Even with various adjustments to the Epson Drivers, I have not
come
> up with a
> tone that is consistently good ie, either too cold or too green...
> I have been trying to tweak these color adjustments, but with no great
luck,
> tho I still trying other settings and hoping for the best...
>
> I have been in touch with MIS, and they tell me that their inks do not
work
> well with
> either luster, semi-gloss or glossy papers.
>
> So, the Epson printer,inks and papers work very well as an integrated
> system,
> but the tones are not quite right, or at least I have not been able to hit
> the
> proper settings/profiles...
>
> Look forward to hearing from anyone with similar experiences, especially
if
> you've
> worked your way through this...
>
> Best;
> Stu Rosner
> sturos@...
> sturos@...
>
>
>
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