Digital BW, The Print

I have a new (used) Epson1200 in perfect shape and have 
ordered the Lyson Quad neutral inkset and cleaning cartridges.  
How do I get off on the right foot with this set-up?  I want to do 
fine art printing on a great thick cotton rag satin surface paper 
and also production portrait photography on a semi-gloss resin 
photo paper.

Hope I don't sound too stupid, or have made the question too 
general.

Jim

I did what your'e about to do a few months ago. Had an Epson 1200 in very good shape ready to go. My color 
work is now done with the 1280. I used the Lyson cleaning carts to flush out the old Epson ink and the 
installed the Lyson neutral quad blacks. Very simple to do and very nice prints. I was waiting for the Small 
Gamut
ink sets but at that time they were not available for the 1200--so I got up and running with the quads.

Three weeks ago Jim Christiansen of Lyson did demos here in Toronto with the Small Gamut inks and I fell in 
love with the tones you can get. Tones like in my wet darkroom, beatiful blues & blacks, wonderful sepias and 
all kinds shades in between. I'm now going CIS with the now available bulk Small Gamut. 

Jim, Small Gamut carts are now available for the 1200, I would suggest that you bypass the quads. You can 
gets wonderfull neutrals from the SM Gamut inks with some slight work. As for profiles, use the one for the 
1280 that can be down loaded from the Lyson site. A profile for the 1200 is on the way I'm told.

No these are not pigmented inks and I'm not sure they will last as long as the carbon based inks but boy are 
nice. If you go for it, keep in touch, not so much on this forum about Small Gamut. Good Luck!

Gregory Edwards/Toronto

Jim-

I'm using Lyson ink in a 1160, so some comments may not apply.

You might want to try the small gamut...the default settings seem to 
me to be a perfect match to the Quad neutral and you have the 
flexibility to warm it up or cool it off if you choose to.

The semi gloss and gloss papers are the areas where you get your bang 
for the buck with the dye inks. I think you will be very happy with 
everything from Epson premium photo gloss, pictorico high gloss white 
film (my favorite), and they lyson papers all do well. You will not 
have much success printing on uncoated fine art papers which work so 
well with pigment inks, so avoid them, but there are plenty of coated 
fine art papers that look terrific.

Just in the last couple of weeks, lyson started selling bulk ink (at 
least for the first time in USA) and if you are going to dedicate 
your printer to BW, this is the way to go...once you recover the cost 
of the CIS unit, the ink is about 85% less expensive in bulk.

Good luck... I'm sure you will love this inkset...it's the best way 
to print anything glossy by far (IMHO<g>)

Tom O'Connell

TomOC@...
www.thomasoconnell.com


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "joffbroadway" 
<joffbroadway@y...> wrote:

> I have a new (used) Epson1200 in perfect shape and have 
> ordered the Lyson Quad neutral inkset and cleaning cartridges.  
> How do I get off on the right foot with this set-up?  I want to do 
> fine art printing on a great thick cotton rag satin surface paper 
> and also production portrait photography on a semi-gloss resin 
> photo paper.
> 
> Hope I don't sound too stupid, or have made the question too 
> general.
> 
> Jim