Digital BW, The Print

And this exactly why 3rd party inks bought in quantity exist, and why
I'm moving toward them as fast as I possibly can. This new inkset was
designed, as much as anything to kill them off. It won't work.



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steven Daniel
<stevendaniel@o...> wrote:
> That sounds about right for the 4800. They're probably confused.
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >According to PC Photo Mag, Epson's K3 inks for the 2400 cost $500+
> >for a complete set.  Is this cost correct?  Is it per gallon?  Only
> >kidding!
> >
> >Al
> >>
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> >--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Carl Schofield
> ><scho@m...> wrote:
> >>  Any word from MIS on releasing the new UC k3 equivalent inks for
> >the 
> >>  2400 and 4800 printers?  That 2400 is getting to be expensive to
> >run 
> >>  with Epson inks.
> >>
> >>  Carl
> >>  On Sep 26, 2005, at 2:48 PM, Clayton Jones wrote:
> >>
> >>  > Hello All,
> >>  >
> >>  > Seems that there can be differences in K3 production batches. 
> >In the
> >>  > midst of working up an image and making test prints (2400) I had
> >to
> >>  > replace three inks: MK, LK and LM.  The next print had a magenta
> >tinge
> >>  > that wasn't there before, so the new LM must have been stronger.
> >>  >
> >>  > I was using 6h/-6v on Aurora Art.  Changing it to 5h/-6v brought
> >it
> >>  > back close to the previous color.  By "close" I mean that I
> >couldn't
> >>  > get an exact match to the previous print (5h was not quite
> >enough but
> >>  > 4h was too much).  So the first point here is that ink
> >differences can
> >>  > be finer in gradation than the system allows us to compensate
> >for.
> >>  >
> >>  > I think these differences are to be expected.  I have found
> >>  > differences among Eboni batches, and differences in tone,
> >contrast and
> >>  > density among different paper batches.  So the second point is
> >that
> >>  > these ABW settings may have to be revised from time to time -
> >they
> >>  > aren't carved in stone.
> >>  >
> >>  > I think the greater lesson from all this is that even though we
> >are
> >>  > working with computers and digitized images we can't expect that
> >a
> >>  > print we make today will look exactly one we made a year ago. 
> >This is
> >>  > not a new thought but it doesn't hurt to mention it now and then.
> >>  >
> >>  > Regards,
> >>  > Clayton
> >>  >
> >>  >
> >>  > Info on black and white digital printing at
> >>  >
<http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm>http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
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> >According to PC Photo Mag, Epson's K3 inks for the 2400 cost $500+
> >for a complete set.  Is this cost correct?  Is it per gallon?  Only
> >kidding!
> >
> >Al
> >>
> >>  [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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