Digital BW, The Print

Hi,

First of all, many thanks to this group and special thanks to Paul to share all your knowledge and experience. Many times already I have achieved superior results in following your expertise and your guides on your website helped me to get started with my black and white printing.

A word about my setup: we have an Epson R2400 with CIS system (Lyson), replaced the black inks with HP Photo Black + Grey + Light Grey (Z3100) in order to achieve more neutral toned black and white prints. I mainly print on Canson Satin, Ilford Smooth Pearl + Gold Fibre and Harman FB AI Gloss, so mainly PK printing.

I have 2 problems:
1. printing through QTR RIP and using solely the 3 black (HP) inks without toner colors, we did notice quite some copperish, reflective "bronzing" with these HP Vivera carbon black pigment inks on our satin papers. This is somewhat a bummer.
2. using Epson's driver in ABW mode, we achieve a nice screening and no microbanding but we do not manage to print with only 3 black inks without toner colors (not in ABW, not in Black Only) whereas printing with QTR (in ordered and adaptive hybrid mode) does print 3PK only but gives a lot of microbanding: mainly in the first and last printing lines.

Do you have some recommendations for these 2 issues?

Kind Regards,

Tom


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "pr_roark" <roark.paul@...> wrote:
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> "johnny_kurtz" <johnny@> wrote:
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> >... could I for ILFORD GALLERIE SMOOTH PEARL paper printing 
> > use a "3-PK" setup filling all three with the MIS R1800 Photo Black?
> 
> It would probably work.  The image would be very warm, and you'd have to make some new profiles.  The basic, manually-drawn 3 MK curve might be close enough to simply re-linearize it for the new ink-paper combination.
> 
> I think there are some on this forum that are or were doing something like this.
> 
>  
> > I am curious because I have had great results for years with
> > my Epson 1280-S and the UT2 set and ILFORD GALLERIE SMOOTH 
> > PEARL, but now my 1280 is dying and would like my R1800 
> > to do both color and B&W for now.
> 
> If you like a neutral image tone, try the HP Z3100/3200 Photo Black.
> 
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> > If the "3-PK" could work, would I be able to run a  "3-PK" 
> > & "3-MK" in the R1800 simultaneously with a "glop" to make 
> > dual purpose B&W R1800? I do not really need a color printer.
> 
> I would think so.  
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
>