Digital BW, The Print

Thanks Paul. After reading your email I dropped my plan to use dye inks 
in R1800 together with 3MKs. Instead, I have some UT7 inks available and 
it was originally for an Epson 2200 printer. Is it possible to use the 
ink on the same R1800 with 3MK together to make it multiple choices 
where I can choose to print 3MKs, or MKs with gray or toned inks??

For R1800, the rest of 5 unused ink positions are: Cyan, Magenda, 
Yellow, Red, Blue

Other than MK/PK, UT7 has 6 inks: light black, dark gray, light gray, 
cool tone, sepia tone, light cool tone

I would like to use light black, dark gray, light gray, cool tone, sepia 
tone in R1800's 5 positions. Any suggestion to set this up?

BTW I printed a few pictures using 3MKs onto different sized Moab 
Entrada natural paper. Looking at the results I feel 3MK method is very 
excellent on 11x17 or larger paper. But for letter size some light 
black/gray/light gray inks may help to smooth the transition especially 
on light human skin tone.

- philip



pr_roark wrote:
>
> With a rip that can handle color, the 1800 has lots of
> possibilities. However, the Epson drive requires the expected colors
> to be in their expected places, and QTR does not pass the color
> information through the rip. It converts to grayscale. (I'd like to
> see a versionn of Create ICC-RGB that does pass the color information
> through.)
>
> Don't use dyes; Eboni is not compatible with them.
>
> I'd recommend you use MIS (or Epson) color pigments that are designed
> for the 1800 plus the 3-MK. To print glossy, just swap out the MK in
> the PK spot and do not check "gloss" in the driver. Then the Epson
> driver will print color as usual, using the PK when a glossy paper
> type is used.
>
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
> <mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com>, Panmedia
> <panmedia@...> wrote:
> >
> > To print B&W on matte and color on glossy papers, is it possible to
> use
> > 3MK on R1800 with 5 dye color inks instead of Epson's original
> > UltraChrome color inks?
> >
> > R1800 has 5 UltraChrome color inks: cyan, magenta, yellow, plus red
> and
> > blue. They are more for matte paper without gloss optimizer. How if
> I
> > use five compatible dye inks: cyan, magenta, yellow, light cyan,
> light
> > magenta?
> >
> > Or, if dye black is required to print color photos, is it possible
> to
> > make it:
> >
> > MK+MK+PK+C+M+Y+LC+LM
> >
> > Thanks,
> > - philip
> >
>
>