Very new. Looking for a cure for ignorance.
2003-08-20 by srmaniscalco
Reading through this thread, I see that I am completely out of my league. Perhaps someone could dumb down enough to have a conversation with me about my first steps into B&W printing. Here is my situation in brief: I know that my equipment is in most ways inadequate. I am hoping that it will at least be useful as a learning tool. I recently bought an Epson C82 printer, not with photo printing in mind, but rather because it was $40 after rebate. For the money, the quality surprised me. I remembered reading about quadratone inks and it occurred to me that I might be able to achieve passable results while learning the process. Does anyone know if the quadratone inks will work with the C82? I saw the printer listed on the MIS website but I don't see quadratone inks listed for it, nor do I see workflow information. I have Photoshop 7 and am a fair hand with it, though not nearly to the level of technical expertise that I see expressed here. Any opinions? Am I completely wasting my time?