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RE: [Digital BW] Epson 2400, ABW and Qimage

2006-09-19 by Paul Roark

>For those of us dabbling in B&W and maintaining Color 
>functionality with our 2400s--

>If we replace yellow for LLK to print BW,

MIS EZ-W-Yellow appears to be even better than LLK -- chip compatibility and
smoother.

> would it be as simple as putting back the yellow cart when we need color?

That's it -- just swap one cart back and forth.  There is some ink lost in
the cleaning cycle the printer does.  This might even be minimized by doing
it with the printer off.  Then just print a yellow purge pattern to clear
the head of the previous ink.

> Will any special settings in ABW be required when running an
> inkset with replaced Y => carbon LLK?

The ABW "thinks" it has high gamut yellow.  So, you'll be moving the points
on the ABW chart up toward yellow to compensate for the "yellow" now being a
very low gamut yellow.  (0, 0) will produce a cold print, not a neutral one.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com

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