Digital BW, The Print

Scott,

The word from MIS is that the refill procedures do not work for the 
1400.  They'll look into it.

> What about the 'cheapie' CIS unit sold on e-Bay? 

I have 2 of the cheap SuperJetUSA units running -- just fine as a 
matter of fact.  The instructions are a bit minimal, but it's 
probably fairly obvious how to prime the system by holding the cart 
upside down and use a syringe with a modified bottom fill adapter on 
it or other fitting.  Just pull the air out and let the ink fill the 
cart from the filled ink tank.  The ink level appears to be somewhat 
critical.  I put spacers under the tank to be sure the ink level is 
not below the head (resulting in a reverse syphon that pulls air into 
the system).

At this time I'm not at a position to recommend any glossy printing 
options, but I have MIS color pigs with Eboni in a 260 and it makes a 
very nice every-day printer.  The MIS colors did not profile well 
with my color profiling software, so I just made a curves layer that 
does a reasonable job and is easy to use.  That approach would make a 
very good casual color + very good B&W matte printing solution.

I'll take a look at B&W solutions that can do matte and glossy.  It's 
too early so see if glop is also appropriate.  In light of my feeling 
that a cheap eBay CIS may be the best way to use Epson desktop 
printers with third party inks, I'll be looking at a system that can 
do matte and glossy without having to change inks.

Paul    
www.PaulRoark.com