Digital BW, The Print

The ink carts on this printer are the same as the 9500 (and or bigger 
500ml) right? If so that means no ink chips, and attaching bottles to 
the internal ink lines should be a snap.

Those G-Chrome inks may seem very tempting, but I would hesitate to 
suggest them. I ran those for a while too. The G4 worked better and 
gave less banding in the blacks and full cyan, and full magenta. 
Switching over the the Image Specialists inks was even better after 
the G4 inks completely clogged one of my dampers, partial on a couple 
others. It was the strangest thing, I was running low, so ordered 
some more ink, and the yellow got low enough to add, same with black. 
I made a couple of prints, and started a larger print... about 
halfway through the yellow completely stopped! One pass it worked, 
the next pass it didn't, looked like a switch had been changed to 
turn off the yellow ink. Happened about when the new batch of ink had 
finaly reached the heads. After I got the run around from support, 
including sending the "defective" ink back to them, they said it was 
fine and they were testing it in their 3000 that prints the packing 
lists in shipping. Now here is the best part, I have several of those 
packing slips that obviously have a serious headclog! In short I just 
do not trust them to do the right thing, cost me alot for repair and 
wasted media. Also as far as I know, the G-Chrome matte black is the 
same dye/pigment as their other matte black inks, that means you will 
still have water issues, and may have the same scuffing that you have 
now.

This new ink should have a much larger gamut, but it is designed for 
the Ultrachrome printers, and I'm having a hard time getting the ink 
limits low enough to give me that gamut. Since your 10K used the same 
Archival inks as my 9500, I don't know if this would be a good 
suggestion. They flow through my CIS and the printer great, but too 
much is still getting onto the paper, might be time to try some of 
those demos for a new RIP to see if I can find something that will 
work. Or I just go back to the other inks with a lower pigment load, 
they give me about equal to UC inks on most papers (comparing 
profiles).

Those see through carts for the big printers seem like a bad idea to 
me. It seems that it would have all the disadvantages of a bottle 
system, and you still need to remove them from the printer to fill 
them. I think the foil bag was there to keep the pressure at a 
constant amount from beginning to end, the clear carts will vary from 
full to empty and may effect your output. I'm just guessing about 
that, but might be something to think about.