Digital BW, The Print

Hello Sonrise,

I'm very interested in knowing the results of your experiment as I
recently adopted an HP Designjet 30 for color printing and dedicated
the Epson R1800 for monochrome printing as it has a frequently
recurring yellow nozzle clogs.

Though the Designjet printers have linearizing functions as part of
their built-in color calibration, the only way I can make an
acceptable monochrome print is to employ a Wasatch SoftRIP. For color
work on non-HP media I also have to use SoftRIP as the printer dumps
so much ink that instant dry microporous media just cannot handle. I
suspect HP increased the Vivera/swellable longevity by using large
amount of ink in a virtually bottomless swellable substrate.

Still I think you may run into a clogging problem if you try to use
the MIS hextone ink in your HP printer. But at least you can buy
replacement printheads if you manage to clog them all up  :)  You also
might want to make sure to flush all HP ink from your printer before 
loading the MIS ink.

Good luck,
--nick  

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "sonrisenc"
<sonrisenc@y...> wrote:
> 
> As far as pigmented inks are concerned, HP does make pigmented 
> (black) inks for its printers, so I'm certain the printheads can use 
> pigmented inks as easily as dye-based inks. However, black only 
> printing is not what I am interested in.
> 
> I hope to soon experiment with MIS hextone inks in my Deskjet 9800. 
> I will happily post the results of my experiments.
> 
> Sonrise