Digital BW, The Print

"Tyler Boley" wrote:

Thanks, Tyler, that was helpful. "Make it work" is right...Actually,
my setup is working quite well. I'm very pleased with the results,
although what looks great to me may not be up to what is now possible.
As someone else said, Paul's standards may be somewhat higher than
those of some of us. (I mean that as a compliment, too! His high
standards benefit us all.) I'm quite happy with my results using 3MK
(the color cart positions I've filled with MIS cleaning fluid in the
OEM carts using the MIS OEM refill kit - very economical). And I can
refill the MIS spongeless carts with the Eboni ink very economically
as well.

Who is Tim Gunn, by the way?

Regards,

Paul W.

> I don't think either of you should have buyer's remorse. Something
did come along, the 
> 1900, which I have been playing with, and my 1400 is going on ebay soon.
> The right 1400 could very well drive you to near suicide with it's
paper feeding. It is 
> designed for thinner papers, given the inkset, something David Tobie
said which put a 
> light bulb over my dim brain.
> You can make it work, but some people had theirs replaced, and the
rest of us learned to 
> constantly clean the paper advance mechanism to keep it working. So
far the 1900 is 
> working, but it looks like a very similar advance system to me, with
no paper thickness 
> adjustment like the old printers.
> The fact is, even though in this economy every penny is felt, we are
taking pretty cheap 
> mechanisms that have a product life of a year, and a user life of
maybe 5, and using them 
> in ways for which they were not intended.
> It's a crap shoot anyway. So as Tim Gunn says- make it work.
> Your 1800 that is.
> Tyler
> http://www.custom-digital.com/