Digital BW, The Print

With all the well warranted talk of the value and quality of the Epson
2400, and its Epson K3 inks, I was hoping to see more reference to the
now, finally (finally) available MIS K4 ink alternatives. 

Would new profiles and much much testing, adjusting, compensating and
perhaps even compromise need to get the MIS version of the Epson 2400
inks to work ? (as had been the case with earlier MIS pigment
formulations)  I am speaking of all the colors of inks here. 

A concern is that perhaps MIS has not found a way to replicate or
actually match the economic might of Epson in the formulation of the
K4 inks. 

Microencapsulation is a process, as I have looked up, that is used for
a number of different chemical activities, quite apart from pigment
enhancement. This seems to be the salient element, or value, of the
Epson 2400 inkset.

If one were a conspiracy theorist one might look at the history of
Epson and see that when low cost generic plastic cartridges were
eventually manufactured, Epson switched to chipped cartridges. It took
longer to break through that barrier for the generics, but is it now
fully accomplished. I have no substantiation other than speculation,
but might Epson have given up on chips and decided that the toughest
component for imitators or generic manufacturers to emulate or
replicate could be a highly sophisticated ink formulation. Which would
be patentable at that. And might MIS not be in a position to be able
accomplish this, particularly as I have seen said here that the new K4
inks are just the 2200 inks with some newer blacks. 

In any event, and speaking of all the colors, as this is the only
qualified group that I know of, and in light of the paucity of info re
the MIS K4, all colors, inks - 
Would new profiles and much much testing, adjusting, compensating and
perhaps even compromise be needed to get the K4 MIS version of the
Epson K3 2400 inks to 95% of the end print success of the original
Epson 2400 K3 inks ?

Thanks,
Jerry