Digital BW, The Print

Thanks Paul,

For all your hard work and sharing your knowledge. :>)

Scott

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "pr_roark" 
<pr_roark@...> wrote:
>
> 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
>