Digital BW, The Print

Hi Paul,

I'm the original poster of this thread; I did ask about using the 
full MIS PRO inkset or perhaps using the MIS K4 black and gray inks 
(K and LK) on a 7600, aiming to print both color and B&W (through 
QTR) with less bronzing and GD on Epson's photo papers (basically 
Premium Luster and Premium Semimatte) and, eventually, the new rag 
photo papers like Silver Rag and Innova F-Type. From what I've 
undestood of your comments, the UT-3D grays (LK and LLK) could be 
used on the 7600 in place of Epson's UC K and LK. Am I getting it 
right? (of course, we would have to re-profile our papers - we use a 
Colorvision PrintFix Pro to do this, both for color and for QTR 
linearization).

If this is not the case, do you think the normal MIS PRO inkset would 
give us less bronzing and gloss differential on these papers than the 
original Epson UC inks? Or maybe using Epson's new K3 black and light 
black inks (as suggested in another post by Shilesh Jani) on the 
7600's UC carts would be a better solution (Epson inks are easier to 
buy in Brazil) ?

Thanks in advance,
Paulo


At 13:39 12/7/2006, you wrote:
>...
> >I'm looking for a solution to the problem of printing both color and
> >B&W on a photo school environment ...
>
>I'm obviously a fan of blended B&W inks due to lack of dots and increased
>longevity. So, the core LK and LLK of the Ut-3D inkset is actually a
>blended B&W inkset that is just slightly warm on H. Photo Rag. Although I
>have not seen MIS production samples of this, a beta batch that was a bit
>off nonetheless was able to be profiled by Tom B. in a 9600.
>
>The point is that the UT-3D LK and LLK will, hopefully, allow K2 and K3
>printer owners to have close to the best of both worlds -- full color and a
>blended, near-neutral core.
>
>Paul
>www.PaulRoark.com