Digital BW, The Print

I am not familiar with your printer but would suggest that if you like the
smoothness of the Epson image then yes you should focus in on full MIS B&W
ink sets.


> From: Mark McCombs <lockwood_mccombs@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:22:15 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: My Eboni C84 MIS BO experience..........
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Mark McCombs"
> <lockwood_mccombs@h...> wrote:
>> Hello:
>> 
>> After lurking for some time I decided to try BO printing with an Epson
>> c84 and the MIS Eboni.  However, before doing this, I printed a test
>> image using the standard Epson inks, both using all inks, and then
>> just BO but with the Epson ink.  Then after swapping the black cart
>> with the Eboni, I printed the same image, BO.
>> 
>> I like the full ink Epson image the best.  It's much smoother and dark
>> shadows have more detail than the other two.  Dmax seems the same
>> between all of them.  It's neutral, so no worries there.  I know, it's
>> not archival. 
>> 
>> Oh yeah, the paper I used is just the Epson Heavyweight Matte, as
>> that's all I have right now.  But it's an apples to apples comparison,
>> and I'm a little disappointed in the Eboni.
>> 
>> This was a surprise to me.  Should I go with the full MIS ink b/w
>> inkset?
>> 
>> (side note:  I've always used Quark to print with.  Worked fine on my
>> old Epson 780, but with the C84 all images have a course halftone
>> screen applied to them.  Printing from PS works fine, but I like to
>> print from Quark as I can put text photo descriptions (time,place,
>> etc.) under the photo, and still have crisp text.  PS rasterizes the
>> text, at least PS 7.0 does.  Any ideas here?)
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Mark