Digital BW, The Print

On Feb 2, 2005, at 3:06 PM, James Irelan wrote:

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>>    If there is a very large volume to purge then I could just do a
>> power
>>  clean cycle, but that will waste a lot of the color inks as well.
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> Don't know about the compatibility of the two inksets mentioned, but
> with any other two inksets the standard advice is to install flush
> carts (you can make them yourself with distilled water), and flush
> until the lines are absolutely clear, preferably including a couple of
> days in there where the printer is just sitting with the flush in the
> lines.  The ink wasted is a lot cheaper than replacing a head
> hopelessly clogged with incompatible inks.
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On Feb 2, 2005, at 8:21 PM, mdevenyi wrote:

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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Carl Schofield
> <scho@m...> wrote:
>> James,
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>> If I were switching from dyes I would definitely flush first, but I
>> don't think that the MIS UC Equivalent and Epson UC are
> incompatible.
>> I had no problems switching on the 2200, but of course there it was
>> just a matter of purging the small volume of ink in the head.  I
> just
>> went ahead and used the purge procedure for my 4000 and got the K
> and
>> LK inks flushed by printing about 12 K and LK 100% pages (latter
> with
>> an LK only profile).  Working very well and both BO and K+LK only
>> profile prints are dead neutral gorgeous with the new neutral PKN
> and
>> UT7 LKN inks.  Dmax is about 2.46.  I'm going top overcoat with
> glop in
>> my 2200 and expect dmax to go up to about 2.5, based on Paul's
>> experience.
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>> Carl
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> Carl,
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> How did you build the LK-only profile--through a RIP, ie, QTR? Once
> MIS makes their PKN and LKN UC Equivalents available, I'll be trying
> them on my 4000 as well.
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> Thanks,
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> Martin
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