Digital BW, The Print

I was planning to buy another Epson 1290s to dedicate to B&W printing, possibly with the 
UT2  inkset when available through Permajet in the UK. Thats changed now as I've been 
given a perfectly good 1160 after a freind upgraded. I now need to decide what's the best 
inkset for the 1160.

I have considered both the Lyson Small Gamut inks or Permajets VT Blax. 

I've seen good prints from the Lyson inks on darkroom pearl paper at the recent Focus 
exhibition, but that paper no longer appears current. Also reading the SG Ink pdf info, 
Lyson recomend OS 9.2 for my Mac, but I use OSX 10.3.3 Panther. Their info seems very 
old, and relates to Photoshop 5.5 and 6, while I use CS. My impression is the SG ink is an 
old product product perhaps now superceded by better inks, am I correct?

The Permajet VT Blax is I gather the same as the MIS VM Quadtone, this is my prefered 
option. Is there anything I should be aware of when using this with an 1160, OSX 10.3 and 
Photoshop CS?  I only intend to print on matt papers with a neutral print, no toning. Other 
than the VT Blax, is there any other ink easily available in the UK I can consider for my 
setup? Any advice and opinions appreciated.

Steve Bell

Get the latest Piezo set and blow all the others away.

Richard

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From: Steve Bell [mailto:steve@...] 
Sent: 27 March 2004 09:32
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Epson 1160 Dilemma

I was planning to buy another Epson 1290s to dedicate to B&W printing,
possibly with the 
UT2  inkset when available through Permajet in the UK. Thats changed now as
I've been 
given a perfectly good 1160 after a freind upgraded. I now need to decide
what's the best 
inkset for the 1160.



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I use the 1160 with the MIS VM inkset and while generally pleased, I 
will be switching soon to the UT1 set.  If you go with the VM inkset 
you should use the curves that Paul Roark created for the 1160 and 
UT1.  They give much smoother results than the original curves.  The 
only drawback of the new curves is that the slider to fine tune the 
toning control is not available.

Andy

> 
> The Permajet VT Blax is I gather the same as the MIS VM Quadtone, 
this is my prefered 
> option. Is there anything I should be aware of when using this 
with an 1160, OSX 10.3 and 
> Photoshop CS?  I only intend to print on matt papers with a 
neutral print, no toning. Other 
> than the VT Blax, is there any other ink easily available in the 
UK I can consider for my 

> setup? Any advice and opinions appreciated.
> 
> Steve Bell

I've been using the MIS FS inks with the QTR RIP to drive the printer. Very smooth 
prints with no visible posterization.

QTR is a shareware printer driver  for b&w that works on mac OSx and almost any 
epson printer.

FS (full spectrum) inks were designed to work with the cone/R9 quadtone print driver 
and provide a single tone, monochrome print.

Good Luck and have fun!
> 
> The Permajet VT Blax is I gather the same as the MIS VM Quadtone, this is my 
prefered 
> option. Is there anything I should be aware of when using this with an 1160, OSX 
10.3 and 
> Photoshop CS?  I only intend to print on matt papers with a neutral print, no toning. 
Other 
> than the VT Blax, is there any other ink easily available in the UK I can consider for 
my 

> setup? Any advice and opinions appreciated.
> 
> Steve Bell