Digital BW, The Print

Hello Chris,

>This looks fantastic, and I'd love to try it assuming I can fix the 
>leak I'm experiencing in my 220. 

As someone else said, it might be the MIS spongeless carts, if you are
using them.  They are notorious for leaky poppet valves.  I had some
once and had to send the whole set back and insisted on the sponge
carts as replacements.  I've used them for years without leaks.  I
don't know if they still have them, but I would avoid the spongeless
ones if possible.


>I followed your set-up instructions and found that the Y and LC 
>positions were best on my 220 as well.  So I swapped the chips and
>installed the two MK cartridges.  However, the Epson Utility is 
>telling me that the ink is low in both of those positions, despite 
>the fact that I just installed full MK cartridges with Y and LC 
>chips.  Does this mean the chips aren't functioning or installed 
>properly?

Did you reset the chips when you filled the carts?

>I should mention that before installing the new Eboni carts, all of 
>the other MIS UTR2 cartridges (Y, LC, C, M, LM positions) were very 
>low.  So now the Epson Utility is reporting that the Black position 
>is full (which is strange since there's an almost empty LC cart in 
>there now) and all the other positions are low (which is strange 
>since there are two full Eboni cartridges in the Y and LC positions). 
>I'm not sure what to make of this at all.

There has to be a reason...just have to figure it out.  Did you swap
any chips?


 
>Second, I'm trying to follow your instructions for creating the 
>curve in QTR but I can't figure out how to do it on a Mac.  On the 
>Mac the QTR is integrated into the Print dialog, and I can't seem to 
>find where the custom curve creation part of the program is.  I'll 
>go over to the QTR forum but if anyone here can help with that I'd
appreciate it.

Sorry, I don't have a Mac and have no experience with Mac/QTR.

Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm