Digital BW, The Print

Hi Mike,

> When I look at the profiles available for the Epson 1400, 
> I only see BO profiles for the 1400 with MIS inks.

With the UT14 inkset I provided a number of ICCs and the curves that are within them.  
See page 2 of http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/UT14.pdf
The curves in the Zip download file can be used for a number of different papers by using QTR's Create ICC-RGB to re-linearizing them with the new papers.  See page 5 of the PDF. 

QTR handles the black only printing.  Also the QTR forum has individuals on it that have made QTR profiles.

For Eboni-6 that PDF also has a few profiles for the 1400.  However, this monotone inkset is so easy to linearize with Create ICC that I assume most will make their own ICCs as needed. 

Most of my recent PDFs will link to a Zip file with profiles.  If they are QTR profiles they need to be put into an existing QTR profile folder, and then opened and saved with Curve Creator to generate the *.quad files.

In general, I design inksets that run well with the Epson driver.  This allows one to start simple -- just plug in the inkset and print with the Epson driver.  Then learning the QTR tools we use can be done in incremental steps.  Doing full QTR profile making is, of course, always an option and gives one total control, but with more work up front.  So, what I try to do is make a learning curve that starts with rather simple plug and play printing.  That's all many will ever need.

Hope this helps.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com