Digital BW, The Print

As a PS from my last post you should bear in mind that the standard Cone
cartridges for the desktop printers are refillable so you shouldn't need to
but any, just replacement plugs if necessary.  Check some of the posts on
the Piezography 3000 group.

David Whistance

  -----Original Message-----
  From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Sarah
Thompson
  Sent: 15 April 2008 00:50
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: [Digital BW] Where next from K7 split tone?


  (Re-sent -- my previous attempt failed, I think, so apologies if you get
  this twice)

  Hi folks,

  I've recently been using a K7 ink set in my r2400 to great success,
  mostly printing on Moab Entrada with the profiles that shipped with QTR.
  I've had some really lovely results with some low-key portraits
  recently, and have had no difficulty getting good prints first time
  thanks to using a colour managed workflow in PS CS3. I currently need to
  order more ink, so I'm wondering whether to go for a CIS solution now,
  or hang on until the K7 gloss support settles down.

  What I'd *really* like is to be able to go back to gloss papers, but I
  currently don't have a spectrophotometer so rolling my own profiles
  would be tricky (not impossible, I've managed it before, but given how
  well the profiles I'd been using with K7 split tone worked, I'm not
  confident that I could duplicate those results).

  So, what do I do? Do I:

  1. Just buy another set of K7 split tone carts and wait a while
  2. Buy a CIS and use K7 split tone in it now
  3. Buy a CIS and go for K7 gloss in bottles and join the bleeding edge

  I'm currently getting into a fairly substantial project that is going to
  require quite a few prints, so going the CIS route is probably necessary
  just from the point of view of cost-effectiveness, but I don't want to
  invest in K7 split tone again if I can reasonably go for the new gloss
  solution.

  Advice/comments?

  Thank you in advance,
  Sarah



  


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