Digital BW, The Print

Thanks everyone for your thoughts. I almost exclusively use PK, but 
want to try MK for the greeting cards that I occasionally make. PK 
looksawful on mat paper. I just didn't want to do this if it was 
going to cost me a fortune in ink. I will give it a whirl.

Happy New Year

http://www.scottjonesphoto.com

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Peter Marshall 
<petermarshall@...> wrote:
>
> 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
> 
> Peter Marshall
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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
> >
> >
> >
>