Digital BW, The Print

O.K., I have the 1280 which is beeing touted as the one of the best for B&W.
I have the standard Epson black ink cartridge and the standard Epson colour 
cartridge.  I am seeing that others are using different inks to get better results.
So then should i toss the Epson standard cartridges and go for somehting 
better suggested here?
Which ones can you suggest and where and how do i get them?
I live in Bangkok and will probably have to order and import.
Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.
Regards to all........Brad.

* -----Original Message-----
* From: bradmol99 [mailto:bradmol99@...] 
* Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 12:29 AM
* To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
* Subject: [Digital BW] Which inks for the 1280.
* 
* 
* O.K., I have the 1280 which is beeing touted as the one of 
* the best for B&W. I have the standard Epson black ink 
* cartridge and the standard Epson colour 
* cartridge.  I am seeing that others are using different inks 
* to get better results. So then should i toss the Epson 
* standard cartridges and go for somehting 
* better suggested here?
* Which ones can you suggest and where and how do i get them?
* I live in Bangkok and will probably have to order and import. 
* Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. Regards to 
* all........Brad.
* 
Brad,

My top choices for the 1280 as a dedicated B&W printer would be one of the 4
PiezoTone ink sets.

http://www.inkjetmall.com/

Or the MIS UltraTone variable hue ink set.

http://www.inksupply.com/

For the PiezoTone inks you need the Piezo plug-in or better the Image Export
BW plug-in (a more updated version of the Piezo plug-in) $150 from:

http://www.bwguys.com/

For the UltraTones you use Paul Roark's RGB separation curve workflow which
is free.

You can also use either the free QuadTone RIP:

http://harrington.com/QuadToneRIP.html

Or OPM/IJC ($250?):

http://www.bowhaus.com/inkjetcontrol/

With any of the ink sets but they are both for Mac and not Windows. Some
folks are now getting QuadTone RIP running under Linux though.

Hope that gives you a starting point.

Martin Wesley
http://www.carolyn.cc/Guests/MartinWesley/pages/MW_01.html
http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html