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Re: [Digital BW] Re: inkjet color and eboni ink

2006-05-19 by robert levin

thank you, L29

--- Clayton Jones <cj@...> wrote:

> Hello Levin29,
> 
> >i do not like any of the print colors that i get
> with mis ut2 or 
> >the neutral utfsn. i love the color of ebony, but
> do not get 
> >satisfactory results(on 1280 epson) printing black
> only. the 
> >quality just is not as good as with the 'color'
> converted cartridge. 
> >what can i do that is not too complicated? 
> 
> You have nicely summed up the dilemma that many of
> us faced for
> several years.  Even though BO prints are grainy, I
> stuck with that as
> my primary method for several years because I too
> didn't care for the
> color and general look of the easy out-of-the-box
> methods with the
> full ink sets (UT2, UT7, EZ-C86, etc).  The only way
> to get control of
> these inks and get what you want is to use a RIP,
> which may take it
> beyond the border of "not too complicated" for you.
> 
> The only thing I can recommend that gives really
> beautiful results and
> is as easy as BO or the EZ methods is the new 2400
> in ABW mode.  Only
> problem is it's an $800 printer.  But I've found it
> to be worth every
> penny.  So scrape together all your shekels, sell
> your baseball card
> collection and anything else you can part with, and
> run don't walk and
> get a 2400.  Great printer.  
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Clayton
> 
> 
> Info on black and white digital printing at    
> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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