Digital BW, The Print

Sorry, Greg, I haven't bothered to try them on mat papers. I get 2.37 
on Costco glossy, so far that's the only paper I've used. Have you 
tried it on any of the PK rag papers? That might work better?

Steve Karafyllakis


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Greg" 
<dfaprinting@...> wrote:
>
> --- 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.
>