Digital BW, The Print

Hi Steve,

I don't have any experience of the wide format printers, but I'll
explain what I think is relevant.

For colour printing: I've only just started my tests, so I don't have
any recommendations yet.

For B&W printing: I wanted an ink set that would print matte and
glossy, and lay down varnish. That meant that there could be only two
toners. The other five 'inks' being MK, PK, LK, LLK and Krystal
Topkote. I used inks sucked out of 2400 carts to begin with, then from
4800 carts. I guess that you could just re-chip K3 carts with old
chips, reset (but that is a guess - they are the same physical form,
aren't they?. But: the only problem I see is that the ink flow was
greater than the printer thought it was - ie my cartridges ran out
faster than the printer thought they did. I used translucent carts, so
I could see the ink level. That would be an option with the 7600,
wouldn't it?

I tried LC, LM and R800 blue to begin with (leaving out the KT at the
toner trial stage) and found the R800 blue to be preferable to the LM.
So I swapped the LM for R800 red. I quite liked that for warm toned
prints, but I'm not a great fan of really warm tones (the warm-ish
tone of the black inks is about as far as I like to go) and one toner
had to go to make room for the KT. So I settled on the LC and blue.
Recently I decided that the blue dots were spoiling the smoothness of
the light tones, and switched to dilute blue (diluted with MIS base).
Of course that was after I had installed a bulk supply system.

For the 7600 I guess that LC and LM might be a better choice - though
the use of blue ink is slight, so the cost of the R800 ink isn't a
major problem.

I use IJC/OPM to print. I used to make profiles with a Macbeth TR924
but now I've switched to the PrintFix Pro, still via IJC of course.

Does this make sense?

Best,
Helen

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "smithphoto2000"
<photosmith@...> wrote:
>
> Helen, what would be the most feasible way to use the K3 inks in a
7600 or a 9600?
> 
> Best
> 
> Steve