Digital BW, The Print

I have a pair of 4800's and have one set up with a custom color Cone ink set and the other with a split tone piezography(B&W) ink set. As far as the color goes, since mine is a custom set(the LK & LLK are piezography selenium inks) I had to make up my own profiles but from what I've read, you can slide the Conecolor in place of the Epson OEM inks without any problem.

I have been using Cone pigments (K3) in a 1400 for more than two years. 
They work all the time every time and I am very pleased with this 
inkset. The "canned" profiles that are supplied with the inks are right 
on!!!. I had some "custom" profiles made and just by way of seeing how 
close the Cone profiles were I printed an image using both profiles on 
the same paper and was amazed at how much better the Cone profile was. 
The color fidelity was plainly better, shadow color detail was better, 
instead of the shadows sinking into a dark monochrome they were alive 
with the colors I was seeing on my monitor.

I have used MIS pigments and for my money there is no comparison, the 
Cone Color inks are an order of magnitude better in all respects.

It is important to get the carts that Cone sells for the 1400 they work 
great, I had used some other carts and they caused me nothing but 
trouble to the point that I was considering abandoning the 1400 but I 
switched to the Cone carts and they hit the ground running and I have 
not looked back since!

A note about auto re-setting carts. When I run low on an individual ink 
in this printer I refill all of the carts and use a chip re-setter (also 
sold by Cone) to reset all of the chips at the same time. In this way 
there is just *one*  cleaning cycle (using expensive inks to clean the 
print head) when I am finished refilling the carts.

Hope this helps

Cheers

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On 10/26/2013 2:20 PM, benedictchen22@... wrote:
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> Hi guys I'm expanding to include color into my work. planing on a 
> second 1400 for cone pigment set is it any good is it any different 
> from the other options in the market?
>
> 

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You might want to also check out Cone's new dye ink; Inkthrift CL. Cone claims it is as archival as Epson Claria which, if you look at the test scores on Aardenberg Imaging, is very good. I have not used pigment inks in my 1400 or 1430 but I have heard that they tend to clog more. Also, I have seen prints using Cone pigment and compared to dye inks it really loses punch. I believe this is pretty much true of all pigment inks compared do dye inks. For my tastes, I'd stay with dye.

I've been using MIS dye inks, which are 1/40 the price of Epson Claria. For prints I sell or need to be archival, I use Epson Claria. When my supply of Epson ink runs out I'll be moving to the Cone CL, which is three times more expensive than MIS but still 1/17 the price of Epson Claria!