Digital BW, The Print

I have my doubts about trying to put pigment black through an R300, you 
wuld probably have a clogging nightmare. Your best bet is probaly MIS 
Eboni in a 1280 (cheaper but more clog-prone) or a 2200, unless you 
need to go bigger than 13 inches wide. Neither of those machines will 
produce a droplet size as fine as the R300, but the etching process 
might hide the small difference. I have both the Pictorico and another 
film 'Proofline Super clear' on hand, if you email me off list with an 
address, I'll send you a grayscale to look at.

Steve Karafyllakis

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "grewd" 
<grewd@d...> wrote:
> 
> 
> I have been using inkjet printers to produce positives to use for 
> photoetching. I need the most opaque and consistent black possible to 
> block UV light during exposure. If the image uses different colors 
> each color has a different opacity to UV light and I get inconsistent 
> results. I just bought an epson r300 because I had read of the black 
> only option.I have tried printing a grayscale image in black only 
mode 
> on transperant film. The output has a blue tone and when I examine 
> with a loupe the dots appear both black and blue. Can I make this 
> printer print a consistent black or is this a quality of the standard 
> black epson ink?  Does anyone have a recommendation of the best way 
to 
> obtain a very opaque and even black. Also what would be a good set up 
> to produce larger positives in terms of printers and producing an 
> opaque and consistent black.