Digital BW, The Print

Hi Sarah:

I have a 2200 and I'm using Eboni, and all MIS colour ink as well. If 
you are comfortable messing around with ink bottles, syringes, and 
needles, you can buy the empty cartridges that MIS sells, and save a 
bundle on ink by buying bulk and refillilng!  Otherwise, I think you 
can just buy their Eboni cartridge and when you put it in the Black 
slot, the machine will recognize it as the matte black.

I have not tried BO but QTR is quite nice using the eboni.

And no, you don't have to flush out the lines or anything. The 2200 
pretty much does that for you when you switch.

Leslie Otterbein

On Dec 25, 2005, at 4:07 PM, sagaface wrote:

>  ...after reading Clayton Jones' articles as well as some others 
> (Nicholas Hartmann's on
>  Luminous Landscape was informative), I think I'd like to try BO 
> printing to see if it might
>  be suitable for my work. Most of my images are very high contrast 
> with large areas of
>  black, so I'm guessing that using Quadtone inks or UT7 wouldn't 
> really be the way to go.
>  I'm not very concerned about minute, zone-type gradations. As of yet, 
> though, I have not
>  found a site that tells me how to set up the printer for it, meaning, 
> once I get that Eboni
>  black ink in my hands, what do I do then? Which Epson black do I swap 
> out and do I need
>  to flush the lines and how do I do that? Can someone direct me to a 
> site that gives a
>  novice like me some handholding instruction? I did see Clayton's 
> article about settings for
>  PSCS and in the printer dialogue box, but nothing about the ink 
> itself besides
>  recommending Eboni.
>
>  Sorry this post is a bit long....any help is appreicated! I'd also 
> like to hear from others who
>  like/dislike the BO way of printing. I've read that many don't like 
> the "dots", but are there
>  any other drawbacks or advantages you'd like to share? Has anyone 
> exhibited prints made
>  this way?
>
>
>
>  Thanks for ploughing through this tome!
>  Sarah
>
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