Digital BW, The Print

Hi Scott,

Like Clayton, I've not noticed any large changes in color ink levels on 
swapping PK/MK. Certainly if it was anything like 1/4 of a cart I would 
have been running out of some color inks on almost every swap, and it 
just doesn't happen.

I've also read some very exaggerated reports of the amount of ink wasted 
on cleaning cycles.  Perhaps some R2400s are somehow more wasteful than 
others, or perhaps people post who don't use the printer? Although they 
do get through the ink, and aren't cheap to run, I think most of it goes 
on the prints.

So long as you batch your prints rather than swap over every time you 
make a print I don't think the PK/MK switch is a major problem.

Peter

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Clayton Jones wrote:
> Hello Scott,
>
>   
>> Thanks for the response. Sorry about my imprecision on using the 
>> term "lines". I really just mean the cleaning of the R2400 mechanism. 
>> Do you know whether all the colors are cleaned out or just the black 
>> part? If it is just the black, then I suspect there is minimal cost. 
>> But another poster suggested that the changeover used up 1/4 of the 
>> color carts which is a whopping amount of ink. Any experience?
>>     
>
> I mostly use MK and have changed over to PK and back three times.  I
> didn't attempt any close measurements, but I certainly would have
> noticed if it used that much.  I don't know if it only cleans the
> black channel or not, but my sense of it is that at most it would be
> like a normal cleaning cycle.   I don't think it's outrageous, but
> like cleaning cycles it uses some so I try to plan ahead for my PK
> sessions and do it as infrequently as possible.  
>
> Regards,
> Clayton
>
>
> Info on black and white digital printing at    
> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
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