Digital BW, The Print

"jag24x" <jag24x@...> wrote:

> I just bought myself a partial working R1800. One of the 
> heads is completely clogged.

Stick a cleaning cart with a fair amount of windex in it in that spot.  It might chew its way through the clog.

> Though I intend on still using it for Eboni 6 inks.

See http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/Eboni-1800.pdf 

> The cartridges in the printers
> Yellow - ok
> Magenta - ok
> Cyan - ok
> MK - ok
> PK - BUSTED
> R - ok
> B - ok
> Glop - ok
> 
> I then got a set of MIS Eboni 6 inks from someone from ebay,
> on the description: "These inks are all different shades of 
> black- you have one that replaces MAGENTA, one for LIGHT 
> MAGENTA, another replaces YELLOW- we have one each for 
> CYAN and LIGHT CYAN and then for plain old black you 
> have the brilliant EBONI."
> 
> If i'm using QTR to print how would I go about setting 
> up the Eboni 6 inks to work here? Would it really matter 
> if I just added each Eboni ink to whatever cartridge color
> I wanted? From there I would make my own curve? Or can I 
> follow a profile already saved in QTR?
> 

See page 3 of the above PDF.  With QTR it really does not matter where you put things, but if you follow the PDF you'll be able to use both QTR and the Epson driver to print.  It is handy to be able to use the Epson driver, with or without ICCs.

You might want to put cleaning fluid in the un-used glop position also.  You can use the C6 base 
(see http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/Ink-Mixing.pdf).  For the clogged position, use half the glycerol so the viscosity is lower -- more likely to get into the clog.

I recommend you get spongeless carts from 
http://www.inkjetcarts.us/ 

The MIS "spongeless" carts for the 1800 that I had were not spongeless, and the sponges reacted with the Eboni-6 base.

Good luck with the setup.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com