Digital BW, The Print

Paul;

The quick answer is not as smooth as I'd hoped; but it's more 
complicated. If you do a QTR ink separation print, you find that the 
matte K gets nowhere near 1.5pl, I don't think its any smaller than 
4pl. The PK is much finer, does a pretty good BO, but its still 
better IMO with 2K or 3K inks. But my over-riding reason for using 
more inks was to bury the microbanding, and I switched LK and LLK 
positions 3 times before settling for what I have-LK in the glop 
position, and LLK in the red. It's stil not as good as the R300, a 
good 1280, or the 7600 (or even the 7500) or anything really that is 
performing as advertised. I think Epson dropped the ball on this one.
too bad, it had the potential of being a great printer for making 
digital negatives, which is what kept me trying with it. 


Steve Karafyllakis

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark" 
<paul.roark@v...> wrote:
>
> Steve,
> 
> > Relatively few on this list bought [the 1800]...
> > However, I do have one, and I'm
> > driving it with QTR and my own ink K3 arrangement using MIS K4 
inks.
> > I started with some BO tests, and while that works well, I prefer
> > the smoother tones of a K2 or K3 print...
> 
> I've been curious what a 1.5 picoliter dot of Eboni looks like.  
It sounds
> like it still was not very smooth.  Was it the highlight dots of 
other
> problems that caused you to go for lighter inks?
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
>