Digital BW, The Print

Paul,

I agree. It is too good of a machine to throw away if it it in good conditon. I should buy a couple of more of them if I had room while they are still around.

I just had a conversation with a guy in Montana today who has picked up three of these machines cheap, almost for free. One he's using for parts. He's using Cone K6 in two of them. I went through the same refilling of the old Epson carts with him as Ernst describes,  carefully documented in that folder I posted. It is easy to reuse the Epson carts with other inks if you wash them out. I found I needed nothing but water in the sink to do it. You just keep flushing out the old  Epson ink until the water is clear then you are in good shape. I set up one set of carts for Neutral and one for Carbon Sepia and use them interchangably when I need to. 

Before you spend a fortune with Studio Print make sure you fully explore the 10K QTR option. 

Email Roy Harrington on his Quad Tone Rip site about that. He once told me it was all fine for the 10K using 9000 set up with K6. Try it. I use QTR with these K6 inks all the time on other 6 channel machines and it's great. 

What I really like about the old 10K machines is the heads are super well made and the pressurized system never ever, ever cloggs. I slow my machine down to 4 pass for the best resolution. The 10Ks are only 1440x720, but that's enough with Cone's inks. 

john



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Paul Kohl <pkohl@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks very much to you (John Dean) and Ernst for sharing your 
> knowledge and experience! The printer is now being repaired by Epson 
> here in Singapore. It is expensive (relatively) but the machine had 
> almost never been used. It seems a crime to just trash it. With some 
> work, I can bring it to the photo students here and give them 
> printing experience unavailable anywhere else in SE Asia. Fun for me, 
> too, as I really love making b&w images. I have been working with a 
> 7880 and Imageprint for several years printing on Japanese handmade 
> paper (Awagami Bizan). I am interested in pushing my own envelope, as 
> well.
> So, carts, I suppose to be the first thing to begin to gather.  How 
> do I get the carts necessary to use the in the 10600?
> For inks I will probably go with Cone's sets. I had already ordered 
> the K7 set before I discovered I had a 10600 and not a 9600. So, the 
> K6 sets are what I need, right.
> Software, I will think about. I have Studioprint budgeted but have 
> already downloaded and paid for QTR, used it a bit on my 7880 
> comparing with Imageprint.
> The big thing is carts. I have looked at the jpegs in the files 
> section and it seems very delicate work...
> Anyway, thanks again and if you can point me to the carts I would be grateful.
> Paul
> 
> -- 
> Paul Kohl
> Visiting Professor, Photography
> Nanyang Technological University
> Singapore
>