Digital BW, The Print

Paul,

Go over to the (Yahoo) Epson Printer Group and look
for posts by Art Entlich.  He offers a comprehensive
printer cleaning manual, but you have to personally
request it from him by private email.  He has lots of
good suggestions.

Mike Brubaker

--- Paul Whiting <paulmwhiting@...> wrote:

> Hello Jay,
> 
> A side issue from your main question, but here goes
> anyway: I recently
> acquired a used 1280 but it's got very low mileage
> judging by the
> cleanliness inside and out. But that's the problem,
> it wasn't used
> enough and I'm afraid the nozzles have clogged from
> disuse. I get no
> output at all. It's got some 3rd party color and b/w
> carts installed.
> Also included were two sets of Cone black inks,
> still in their sealed
> packs. The original owner had attended the Vermont
> workshop but
> apparently abandoned this manner of printing. Not
> sure what to do
> now... a friend says I should install those Cone
> prints and the
> printer just might work.
> 
> What happened to your 1280?
> 
> Thanks!~
> 
> Paul
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com,
> "j.ludvigh"
> <j.ludvigh@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All, 
> > 
> > I have done a search and have not been able to
> find out if the Epson 
> > 1400 can be used in a black only mode. My 1280 has
> just died and I 
> > am looking for an affordable replacement. All the
> reviews of the 
> > 1400 report that while it is excellent with color,
> the results for 
> > B&W prints are not very good. My 1280 had a
> similar problem when I 
> > used all the inks, but produced excellent prints,
> even better than I 
> > could get in my wet darkroom, when used in the
> black only mode. More 
> > than half of what I print digitaly is B&W so very
> good performance 
> > is needed in this area. So, my questions are does
> the software that 
> > comes with the printer allow black only printing,
> and if so are the 
> > results as good as with the 1280 in the black only
> mode? I print 
> > almost exclusively on glossy paper. 
> > 
> > Thanks in advance, 
> > 
> > Jay L.
> >
> 
> 
> 



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