Digital BW, The Print

Thanks Peter for the useful advice.
1-What is this "spectro. QTR ICC profile"? I've no idea. Could you
elaborate?
2-Where is 'Clayton's website'? 
Appreciate your help!
Ginny


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "bwbonkers"
<PeterDLevis@...> wrote:
>
> Ginny
> 
> The R2400 is a great printer for colour and B&W requiring no special 
> third party software such as RIPs to produce quality prints. I 
> upgraded a few months back now because I wanted a better B&W solution 
> with no hassle. My 2100 now lies idle. As far as ink usage is 
> concerned the light magenta and light cyan plus the blacks are used 
> quicker than yellow, cyan and magenta. I recently changed inks to MIS 
> K4 with their easyfill clear carts. Quality is still very good and 
> the savings are huge. However I do make my own profiles using an 
> Eyeone, so I cannot say how good the Epson generic profiles work with 
> the MIS inks for colour work. Also as mentioned earlier Roys RIP 
> contains a piece of software for making B&W profiles if you have a 
> spectro. QTR ICC profile. Used with the Epson advanced B&W mode in 
> the printer driver linearises the output and produces the best B&W 
> prints I have managed to produce to date. Also while I think of it 
> the R2400 has performed brilliantly as far as nozzle blockages. I 
> have I think only had to do one cleaning cycle from new. Have a look 
> at Clayton's site for more info on BW printing in general and his 
> thoughts on R2400.
> 
> Regards Peter.
>