Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Pat Kalbaugh 
<kalbaugh@...> wrote:
>
> I'm ready to give this a shot on my 4 year old R1800. My reasons 
> include the price of OEM ink being outrageous, throwing away all 
> these empty OEM carts into our landfill (I just think it is 
wasteful 
> and stupid), but the main reason is to see if I can get better b/w 
> prints out of this printer. It's always been a problem. Sometimes 
> they are great (neutral tone wysiwyg from the monitor) but 
sometimes 
> they have a major cyan overall tint to them. I also want to try 
> pigmented ink instead of photo ink for archival purposes.
> 
> So, I'm at inkcarts.com and I'm looking at:
> 
> 	PrintersKit Epson SP R800 R1800 Pigmented Set
> 
> Anything else I need to get while I'm ordering - like something to 
> flush out the current OEM inks?
> 
> What about the print head cleaner system? Is that useful?
> 
> Do I need something to reset the chip or are these carts all auto 
reset?
> 
> Also, I don't see "Eboni" per se...is that assumed to be in the 
> pigment ink photo and matte black inks?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Pat Kalbaugh
> Juneau, AK
>

Hi Pat,

If you just want to print b&w, all you need is the matte black 
pigment ink and then download QuadTone Rip(QTR).

I'd give BO printing through QTR a try first, before going to a 6 ink 
b&w set-up.

Scott