Go to www.inksupply.com and then B&W printing and the UTBO (Ultratone Black Only) inks are made for the Epson R1800. Excellent results, better then other B&W inksets I have tried. They also have some good "Help Topics" for B&W printing.
Best, Charles
i_3d_c <ichristie@...> wrote:
My first inkjet printer was the Epson 1270.
I scanned some of my old 4x5 negs and printed them on Archival Matte
paper. I fell completely in love with the results, which was a little
puzzling because I had read that the 1270 wasn't really that great for
B&W. I thought I'd like to get more serious about this B&W printing
thing so I bought an Epson r1800 and dedicated greyscale inks. And was
disappointed. After hours & hours of testing with different papers and
settings (and QTR) I just couldn't achieve the look I had fallen in
love with with the 1270. Long story short, pigment inks just can't
achieve the same d-max as dyes.
Assuming that I'm not interested in my prints lasting hundreds of
years -- a couple of decades would be nice -- are there any printers
or 3rd party inksets that have greyscale dye inks?
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Re: [Digital BW] I think I want to go back to dye ink.
2007-10-23 by Charles Becker