Digital BW, The Print

I believe I heard it mentioned on another thread that boosting color density in the print driver (Advanced->Paper Config) translates into a boost to the ink limits. Have you given that a try?

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of photoian@...
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Subject: [Digital BW] Re:DMaxEpson 4000 vs Epson 7600 (9600)


Lou, you imply that there is a refillable cart for the 4000? How do one obtain such a thing?

Ian







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   Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 20:39:40 -0000
   From: "Louis Dina" <lbdina@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: DMax Epson 4000 vs Epson 7600 (9600)


Shilesh....

What's Up?  IMO, Epson has their head planted firmly up their kazoo.  I have tried to get help, but they are worse than useless.  Epson builds their ink limits into the driver's paper settings, and for whatever reason, they set the ink limits too low on the matte paper settings in their driver.  From what I can tell, all the matte choices are all on the low side.  The glossy settings work fine and give great Dmax on my printer.

The printer can spit out enough ink, as proven when printing an ink limit chart from QTR, but the settings Epson programmed into driver are the limitation.  So, if I want better Dmax and gamut on matte papers using color inks, that means I have to spend more money for a RIP that can control ink limits (ie, NOT ImagePrint, since it hard codes ink limits into the inkset.  Perhaps the full verson of ColorBurst - not the Epson version, or StudioPrint).  

Paul Roark suggested another possible workaround, but I haven't tried it.  Put Eboni black ink into a refilliable PK cartridge and put it into the PK slot of the printer.  Then, tell the printer you are printing on glossy stock and use a glossy paper setting.  Not sure if this will work or not.  The 4000 has more sensors than Carter has pills, and it may be able to sense the paper type.  Not sure about that either.  

My 2200 gets better Dmax on matte paper with the Epson driver than my 4000 does.  But, the 4000 does better on glossy papers than the 2200.

How about sending an email to Epson asking for an update to the driver that allows more ink to the matte papers?  I'll do the same.



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