Digital BW, The Print

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I've been waiting a long time for 
this info.Ijust knew if I switched the hard way, a few days later 
I'd get a print order requiring the Photo K ink!

Steve K

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "gphilpott2003" 
<greg@p...> wrote:
> Hi,
> I just wanted to chime in on the issue of swapping matte and photo 
> black ink on 9600 and 7600.  In case everyone here doesn't know 
how 
> to change the inks with minimal waste.  I have done this several 
> times and I believe it costs aprox $10 in ink and paper to do.
> 1 - printer is not switched on
> 2 - open the ink lever
> 3 - replace the photo black with the matte black cart
> 4 - leave the ink lever open !
> 5 - go into Maintenance Mode 2 by by switching power ON while 
pushing
> the 'Paper source', 'Cut/Eject', and 'Paper Feed down' buttons.
> 6 - press the 'Paper Feed down' button until you see "SERVICE 
CONFIG"
> on the display - press the 'arrow right' button (not Enter!). It 
than
> shows 'XXD' in the lower part of the display.
> 7 - press the 'Paper Feed down' button until you see "NPD" -
> press 'arrow right' button (not 'Enter'!). A value '1' appears in 
the
> display.
> 8 - there are 3 possible settings for NPD:
> 0 - no ink check
> 1 - pigmented ink (there should be s star "*" at this
> setting)
> 2 - dye inks
> 9 - change NPD setting to '0' (no ink check) and press "Enter" - a
> star should show now next to the '0'
> 10 - switch printer off
> 11 - switch printer on
> 12 - close the ink lever
> 13 - printer and driver shows matte black
> For the 9600 I create a solid black image in PS 23x53 inches and 
> print on cheap matte paper at 720dpi.  This only takes a few 
> minutes.  You can see where the matte black ink starts on the 
page.  
> I believe the ink wasted is aprox 20-22 ml which cost about $8 and 
> the paper will cost about $2.50 or so.  I have done this several 
> times and see no ill effect to the printer.  The cartridge chips 
> still read correctly and the ink usage is still monitored.  I 
> printed out these instructions and keep them near the printer.  
The 
> swap takes very little time to do.
> I post this just in case someone is still wasting $100 worth of 
ink 
> on the swaps.
> Greg Philpott
> 
> 
> > > Black ink. It is just too expensive and time consuming to 
change 
> to matte 
> > > black ink for these trials.
> > 
> > I agree.  I don't like to change inks either, but I normally 
> prefer matte papers and only switch to photo black ink when doing 
> digital negatives.
> > 
> > --Tom