Digital BW, The Print

Paul, Thanks again and I wanted to follow up with a note after my 
inks arrived and I had a chance to load the cartridges and start 
printing.

First, maybe it's just my fortune but I had none of the problems I've 
read so much about when loading the cartridges or when starting some 
test prints.  The MIS instructions were right on and once installed I 
had clean nozzle check prints in about 6-7 passes.  Not bad 
considering I had run the cartridges dry before receiving my UT2 set.

Second, since I purchased QTR I followed their process and setup to 
prepare the QTRgui to print.  I loaded some 8.5x11 matte heavyweight 
and ran a print, with the full UT2 inkset in play, straight out the 
gate of an image I had printed just the evening before using the old 
inks.  WOW!  Worked right out of the gate and the print looked just 
like I wanted, warm and just as I imagined.

The only problem I've experienced is trying to use your curves and 
following the procedure for those to print the 21 step_black.tif 
file. Any ideas?

Thanks, Mike

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "pr_roark" 
<pr_roark@...> wrote:
>
> The 1280 UT inks  include a warm,  pure  carbon channel.  If that 
> carbon is not warm  enough, the UT2 yellow position ink is  a sepia 
> mix.  It'll take you well beyond  the warmth of the pure carbon.
> 
> If you don't  want to print neutral at all and want simple and very 
> smooth warm prints, with all channels firing to  get the best 
> smoothness,  the UT-R2 inkset for the 220 is actually appropriate 
for 
> all hextone epson printers.  You could load the R2-warm (pure  
carbon) 
> inks  into the 1280 and they should  print reasonably well with the 
> driver set to Color Controls.  Again, if that carbon was not warm 
> enough, a UT2 sepia ink  in the yellow position could  act as  a 
toner 
> to reach warmer.
> 
> So, there are a number  of  options  that can be used on the 1280 
to 
> achieve very warm prints.
> 
> Hope this  helps.
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com  
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "mbrouphy" 
> <mbrouphy@> wrote:
> >
> > I have a 1280 and have been using the UT inks for printing.  
However, 
> I 
> > want to do warm tone prints on the printer and have looked on the 
MIS 
> > site and found the FS inkset for the printer.
> > 
> > I would like some up to date information on what is the best ink 
to 
> use 
> > for the 1280, an oldie but a goodie for b/w prints.  Thanks, Mike
> >
>