Digital BW, The Print

Peter...you do have to remove the chips and dampers to make the switch.

I wrote IR about the procedure several months ago and they confirmed
that. I outlined the steps I thought I should take and let them tell
me if they were right.

They also said they were working on a system that would not require a
switch, but I've not heard anything about that.

I've been too chicken to try a switch...silly I know. Probably easier
than it sounds.
I've toyed with the idea of getting another printer for glossy work
but that is a little tough to justify. I'm not a pro...my printing
decisions are more based on whimsy than anything else :)

I have the same system & inks as you do. Works better than ANY cis
I've ever had!

Please do post back how it goes. Thanks!

Linda

On Dec 9, 2007 8:46 AM, Peter De Smidt <pdesmidt@...> wrote:
>...not to remove the dampers from the printer once installed, or
> you'll void the IR warranty. Well, one would have to remove the PK
> damper to put in the MK damper and so I'm not sure if doing so is a
> really good idea.  In addition, the chips are put in separate from the
> dampers.  Basically, they're two sets of four chips.  Each set of four
> is on a flat plastic piece, and this is held in place by another plastic
> piece put in perpendicular to the chips.  Well, there's a 4 chip set for
> PK and another for MK.  I expect that one would want to replace the PK
> chip with the MK chip if one wanted to print on matte paper.  If so,
> then you have to remove 4 dampers to allow one to swap out the
> appropriate 4 chip insert.  I'll email IR about this and let everyone
> know what they say.  Even if I really can't switch blacks, so far I'm
> pretty happy with the system.  I'm using MIS K4 inks with  Print Fix Pro
> profiles with extended grays for both color and bw printing.