Digital BW, The Print

Well that's a lot of goodwill and understanding that is shown here, 
thanks again guys.

Starting by reposning to Steve, I did not yet noticed the 4800 was 
supported, it's good news. Meanwhile I precisely do not want any colors 
or toning in my BW prints : I'm quite happy with the piezotone and QTR 
rendering and the 4800 if used for BW will have to only use gray inks 
of the K3 (though I can not yet assess wether 3 parts of gray are 
enough for a smooth grayscale with non-visible dots).

Greg, thanks to you too.

I have learnt to my detriment that's the Pulse has a limited soft. I 
rushed to get one and regret it today (though it's very esay to use... 
maybe too much).

I can not figure out how a change in driver settings could possibly 
solve the ink limit problem. The way I learnt it was that I had to turn 
basically everything off in Epson driver to create the profile. I'll 
try to find out.

I understood from your explanation that only CMYK RIP+ CMYK profile can 
limit ink : which makes sense since the combination will control the 
ink channel. As you said I have not found a 1800 RIP (except QTR but 
for BW).

OB is soft-treated by GM, not any X-rite product : to add to my pain I 
of course took the UV-filtered Pulse... so no chance for me to benefit 
from this feature anyway.

Now the part of much interest for me. I'm frankly not planning to move 
to 3rd part ink for the 4800 (unless I can find a real benefit that can 
only be judged by tests...and advises)and of course at the time being. 
Though I may consider another K as you rightly mentionned. However, If 
the 4800 is so well set out of the box and I find a way in the driver 
to limit the 1800 ink overload (and on the 4800 if the new K shows the 
same issue) then I'm on my way to easier printing. 

I don't have an issue on paper and ink testing as long as they are 
Epson ones : I get them very cheap (up to a certain extend). I have 
more concerns in buying the softs (whether profilers or RIPS)and 
getting wrong : I have the bad Pulse experience that I'd not like to 
repeat. I'm ready to spend a significant time on learning this. Not 
being a pro, I don't make money out of it nor do I need to. So it's 
only leisure, I can afford the time and some spare cash if well spent.

Thanks for the link, I know the site but I did not go to it for a 
while. I'll be hunting for information there.

Olivier