Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Ernst Dinkla 
<E.Dinkla@...> wrote:

> 
> The only explanation I can think off is that the black is not 
> having enough dye colorant. Not enough ink squirted seems 
> strange. The printers have 5 droplet sizes, the smallest 1.5 
> picoliter ? so you may expect that the largest is large 
> enough. I think you should discuss this with Epson if it is 
> happening on all Claria models, the last we expected is that a 
> new dye ink doesn't deliver Dmax on matte papers.
> 


I was hoping that some other users would be able to report on their 
findings, but this seems to be an extremely unpopular topic. About as 
unpopular as fade testing these new inks on matte papers. I had 
thought that maybe a few people would have been interested in BO with 
these new inks, assuming that they really last as long as they 
should, but so far not much interest by anyone.

I'm pretty sure the correct amount of ink is getting onto the paper, 
at least on the EEM. The black patch was not much darker than the 
next patch up the scale. I may be able to find out more in a few 
weeks, I should have some "empty" carts coming that I can take apart, 
if a black cart arraives, I can do a swab test and see what happens.