Digital BW, The Print

>Do you believe You'll succeed by keeping the color printing of 
>the R1800 and giving us the way to print good B&W?

It looks like, with some caveats, the R800/1800 can print both color and
100% Carbon/Eboni B&W -- on matte paper.  The Glop channel prints just like
the others.  Also, 3 good channels can produce an excellent print.  So, one
could print color with the Epson driver and have Eboni in the MK, PK, and
Glop spots and use QTR to print pure carbon B&W.

The caveat is that not all of my channels are perfect.  Three good channels
-- meaning only minor microbanding when printed by themselves -- can make an
excellent print.  If one of the 3 needed for the carbon printing was a bad
channel, I'm not sure you'd have enough jets firing to cover the defects.


>Are you testing with the PK ...?

The Epson R800 PK is too warm and green.  Really ugly as a BO print, but a
great, high gloss dmax.  Without glop covering it on Kirkland glossy paper
the reflection makes about the strongest rainbow I've seen.

Actually, I think Eboni covered with glop on something like the Innova semi
matte might be more interesting.  Frankly, I'm still a matte paper printer
and will probably not pursue this much.  I did try some Eboni on Kirkland
with glop.  The glop might nail down the Eboni enough at least through the
midtones.  With an appropriate PK and on an appropriate paper, it could be
part of an interesting medium warm print solution.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com