Digital BW, The Print

I dont know how to get a reading of exactly how much ink is left.....On 
my mac utility, it just shows me a graphic of each cart, and a blur 
that says "you have enough ink left to print 22 more prints like the 
last one. Basically I have made 35 prints, almost all of them were B/W, 
and the LLK, LK, LC, and LM carts are about 1/3 full, which makes sense 
in regards to the "22 more prints" caption. The photo K is still well 
above half full, and the other three carts are almost full.
Calumet charges me $14 per cart, so 60 prints would use the four carts 
plus about 2/3 of a photo K.
14 x 4 +56
add 10 for 2/3 of a PK cart = 66
divide $66 by 60 prints
you get $1.16 ink per print
add 15 cents for kirkland paper
you get 1.31 per print.
The most significant factor for me however by far is the absence of a 
trash can full of bad or gradually getting better but still not quite 
right "test prints"
That right there cuts the real cost per print down dramatically, for me 
at least.
I have been doing lots of different kinds of images, some of which were 
very black, and some were very "high key", and in between.
That is how my first set of carts is going so far...DM


On Jul 22, 2005, at 12:53 PM, davecattell wrote:

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>  An analysis of my first week with a 2400 and Epsons own inks
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>  16 colour 8x10s
>  7 B&W 8x10s
>  14 colour 8.5 x 11.5
>  2 B&W 8.5 x 11.5
>  ie 39 prints
>
>  ink left
>  llk 0.3, lm 0.1, lc 0.5, lk 0.4, mk 0.9, c 0.7, m 0.7, y 0.6
>
>  One change PK -> MK
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>  ==> $20 in paper, $60 in ink,
>  ==> $2/print, approx $1.50 ink, $0.50 paper
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>  I've only tried B&W without any tinting, mainly to get a sense of the
>  blacks. So far any deviation from black has been down to the paper 
> itself.
>
>  Going by area one implication is that the ink for a 13x19 will cost
>  about $4.50!! I'll find out next week!
>
>  Dave.
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