Digital BW, The Print

Paul and all,

Sorry for the delay in continuing this tread. 

After spending some time reviewing how this thread has developed, 
I've come to the conclusion that the 1800 offers another possibility: 
combine UT14 and 3MK in the same printer.  Since my 1800 seems to 
have only barely noticeable banding on the MK channel, I could put 
eboni in the 7th and 8th channels and have the full UT14 inkset as 
well as the 3MK option installed at the same time.  The warm and cool 
inks would each have 2 channels.  Based on what I'm seeing, that may 
be enough to avoid banding in cool and warm prints.  The only thing 
this combination would not do is sepia.  Also I would only need to 
buy two new inks, the C and M UT14 inks since the C ink is used for 
LC amd M is used for LM.  The 1800 already uses glop and I am using 
eboni as the matte black.

Paul, in a previous post to this thread, you said sepia ink could be 
made using the UT-C and a red made from 1:1 Y:M.  (You also mentioned 
the MIS Y and M are slightly different than Epson's, so some 
adjustment may be needed).  Can UT-C be made from the MIS's R1800 
inks?  While I still have some UT-C, it is old and there is not a 
much left.

Thanks again for your help.