Digital BW, The Print

You'll be wasting time and ink! I had bought a 2400 and tried 
switching back and forth. I finally set-up the 2400 for bw only and 
bought a 1800 for color.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Randy Rancier" 
<randy_rancier2004@...> wrote:
>
> Ok, I'm finally ready to jump up into wide format realm (24"), and 
I've been doing some 
> research and have read Paul's PDF's on 100% Carbon Pigment Printing 
using the Eboni-6 
> inks.  So I guess these questions are directed at Paul, but feel 
free to chime in if you feel 
> you have something to add. Here are my questions and I'll try to 
keep it as brief as 
> possible:
> 
> •	If you were buying one of the older 24" printers to dedicate 
to the Eboni-6 or 
> Carbon-6 inksets, what would you look at purchasing and why?
> 
> •	From what I understand if you are going to dedicate one of 
these large format printers 
> to an inkset you pretty much have to stick with it since it is a 
hassle, takes a lot of time, 
> and expense as far as wasted ink to switch inksets.  However, I 
would also like to be able 
> to print with some of the other B&W inksets where you can vary the 
tone of the print and 
> do split toning and perhaps even switch back to color inksets 
occasionally. SO HERE IS THE 
> QUESTION, is it practical to switch insets with one of the smaller 
13" or 17" desktop 
> printers; if so, is one printer more ideal for this than the 
others???  I also understand that 
> some of the desktop printers have smaller dot sizes (like 1.5 
picoliters), which make them 
> better suited for smaller print sizes.
> 
> I'm going to post a couple more questions about printing on the 
Baryta Papers.
> 
> Thanks in advance for taking the time to answer my questions, it is 
greatly appreciated!
> Randy
>