Digital BW, The Print

Sarah,

You will most likely get some ink on your fingers unless you wear  
latex gloves.  As Tom said, best to buy some bulk ink from MIS along  
with some of their refillable carts and syringes.  You'll also need a  
bottom fill adapter for the syringe to remove air from the cartridge  
valve before using for the first time.  MIS has detailed instructions  
for refilling.

Carl

On Apr 26, 2006, at 6:17 PM, sagaface wrote:

> Tom, yes, I do kno that...thanks, though. and Carl....how difficult/ 
> messy is it to transfer
> the ink from the K4 carts to the ones that work in the 2200? This  
> is the area I am
> completely clueless about. Is there clear instructions somewhere on  
> ho to do this?
>
> Thanks!
> Sarah
>
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Carl Schofield  
> <scho@...> wrote:
>>
>> I use the MIS K4 (Epson K3 equivalent inkset) inks without the LLK
>> ink in both my old 2200 and the 4000.  Works great with a RIP (both
>> QTR and ColorBurst X-Photo with custom cmyk profiles for the latter),
>> but I haven't tried with the Epson driver.  I think the Epson driver
>> would also work with a custom RGB profile.
>>
>> Carl
>>
>> On Apr 26, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Tom Baker wrote:
>>
>>> You do know that your 2200 does not enough slots for the full K3
>>> ink set, right?
>>>
>>>   Tom Baker
>>>
>>>
>>> sagaface <sagaface@...> wrote:
>>>   I guess I'm going to have to try to get some K3 inks in my 2200,
>>> which is what I sort of
>>> figured. I've never transferred inks before, though, so that makes
>>> me a little nervous and I
>>> wqas hoping to avoid it just for that reason.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your comments...they do help.
>>> Sarah
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tim Atherton"
>>> <timatherton@> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'd have to say though that 2200/K2 inks on Silver Rag aren't that
>>>> great... in comparison to using the K3 inks
>>>>
>>>> I started off with my old 2200 - and while the K2 inks on Silver  
>>>> Rag
>>>> were indeed quite an improvement over other glossy/semi-gloss  
>>>> papers,
>>>> there was still some bronzing and noticeable differential, even  
>>>> after
>>>> spraying. The improvement was maybe 50-60% over existing papers.
>>>>
>>>> BUT when I started using K3 inks in a 2400 the difference/ 
>>>> improvement
>>>> was dramatic - absolutely no bronzing, and using ABW and/or QTR,
>>>> almost no discernable metamerism (no more than on a real silver
>>>> print) and as close to a true neutral print as I have ever got  
>>>> on an
>>>> inkjet.
>>>>
>>>> (and you don' need to run just BO to get a nice print though -  
>>>> works
>>>> well with QTR)
>>>>
>>