Digital BW, The Print

Hi Paul,

My Epson R1800 died with a severe yellow clog and I began to use HP
printers for a while but they have other problems, too. Recently I
acquired a used R1800 on craigslist and began to use the MIS OEM
refill tools and now I can really say I know how to use this printer.
I can swap the OEM chips by switching the entire piece that holds the
chip, it's much faster and safer than having to touch the chip itself.

There are other techniques that allows me to keep the printer in great
shape and troublefree operation that makes me fall in love with the
R1800 all over again. The best technique I found is I always use
cleaning cartridges to quickly get clean nozzle checks, often with
just one push of the ink replace button, then quietly swap back the
color carts without the printer ever knows what's going on (I had to
scroll saw the top cover to make this work), and print some purge
pages using QTR. Bypassing the ink priming cycle sure prevents lots of
problems. Then I reverse the process before an anticipated period of
non use.

So your continuing work on this printer is much appreciated. I'm
looking forward to employ the 1800 eboni-6 in this printer. Do you
have a write up on the Eboni-1800/3-MK combination QTR workflow
somewhere, or is this something you're planing to do?

Thanks,
--nick

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "pr_roark"
<pr_roark@...> wrote:
>
> I'm having good results with Eboni-6 in the
> 1800.  While there may be interesting and unique
> ink installations, I'm inclined to go with the
> stock Eboni-6 inks, but in an ink order that
> makes the most sense in the 1800.  This ink
> order I currently think is best simply follows
> the color wheel.  It prints well with the Epson
> drive and facilitates Epson curves and a color
> managed workflow.
> 
> See
> http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/Eboni-6-1800.pd
> 
> With QTR the Eboni-6 (which maybe ought to be
> called Eboni-1800 for this printer) workflow can
> be combined with the 3-MK workflow -- not only
> in the sense that the same printer can have both
> approaches installed, but also in that the QTR
> profiles will be able to be combined via the
> sliders in QTR.  Initial experiments with this
> are producing some very intersting results,
> basically sliding between Eboni- 6 smoothness
> and 3-MK neutrality.
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
>