Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Al Young" 
<acyoung@r...> wrote:
> 
> Does anyone use MIS (especially EZ) inks in the Ink Republic system?
> 
> Al
> 


The inks should not matter. The material that the IR system is made 
from should resist pretty much any aquaeous inks, and many mild 
solvent inks. Their "damper" design is about as close to the design 
that Epson has used in their large format printers, without 
infringing on Epson's patents. I'm not saying it is perfect, I think 
there are a couple of places that could be improved, but it does seem 
to function better than the last one I bought which was from 
Mediastreet for the garbage Epson 785 printer. If you really wanted 
to get creative, I would suggest building a system from Epson large 
format dampers, and a good amount of imagination. If you want to 
avoid that hassel, just buy the dry system and fill with the ink of 
your choice like I did.

If you really want opinions, go to http://www.dpreview.com/forums and 
do a quick search of the printers/printing forum, you'll find a lot 
of people using them and reporting very good results.