Digital BW, The Print

Thank you Paul,

1st
I don't need Sepia on the 7600, I can do this with the 4800. 
2nd
I don't use my 7600 very often, maybe 5 to 10 prints a month, 
sometimes more ...

Is now the UT-3D the better choice for me ?

I cant find Oct. 1 message #80202 ... where is it ?


Thank you

Florian 



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark" 
<paul.roark@...> wrote:
>
> Florian,
> 
> >I want to buy a MIS B&W System for my Epson 7600.
> 
> There are a couple of issues that you need to decide up front. 
> 
> First, do you like to print sepia, or is carbon warm enough?  I 
included
> sepia in the UT2 and UT7 inksets, but now tend to avoid it. It has
> significant amounts of color pigments in it.  As such, it is just 
not as
> fade resistant as the other inks.  Additionally, most printers 
seem to be
> smoother if all the color channels are firing.  With the sepia 
installed,
> most of the curves do not use that ink position.  The UT-3D inkset 
omits
> sepia in part to have all the channels used regularly.  I, 
frankly, find
> pure carbon on Silver Rag is as warm as I need to go, and it's the 
more
> lightfast pigment there is.
> 
> Second, do you use your large format printer regularly?  My 
experience with
> blended B&W inksets (all I've tried) is that they tend to have 
tone shifts
> if the inks are left idle for more than a week.  As an individual
> photographer (as opposed to a service bureau), I just do not use 
my large
> format printer that much.  As such, when I did us it, I had to 
purge the
> inks that were in the tubes connecting the cartridges to the 
head.  This is
> time consuming and wastes ink.  As such, I'm moving away from 
blended
> inksets (more than one pigment type in the same ink, like carbon 
plus color
> pigments) for large format printers.  
> 
> See my Oct. 1 message #80202.  The same issues would apply to the 
7600.  So
> far the new approach is working very well.  It does require a rip, 
but you
> already appear to have such.
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
>