Digital BW, The Print

Why is the 1200 not supported by so many of the workflows that include
the 1280?  Is it that much different?

thanks,

John

On 19/2/05 6:38 pm, "mojojones2001" <mojojones@...> wrote:

> 
> 
> Why is the 1200 not supported by so many of the workflows that include
> the 1280?  Is it that much different?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> John
> 

I suspect because it is much older, so there are less about, and its ink
nozzle size is larger. There's less of an incentive to produce support for
the newer inks.

I have one here, used as a backup for printing colour. If I wanted to use if
for B&W, what would be the best inkset to use?

Steve Bell

Steve,

I have a 1200 set up with Piezzotone Carbon Sepia and it works great. I've had no cloggs 
or banding or any issue, though I don't use it a lot. I'm sure the MIS quads will work great 
on it too. I really don't see a lot of difference in output from the 1270-80 machiines and 
the 1200. However, the tolerances between these older machines were far more different 
from unit to unit than the Ultrachrome printers are. The 1200 is also a fairly slow printer.

John



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Bell <steve@l...> wrote:

> On 19/2/05 6:38 pm, "mojojones2001" <mojojones@c...> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Why is the 1200 not supported by so many of the workflows that include
> > the 1280?  Is it that much different?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > John
> > 
> 
> I suspect because it is much older, so there are less about, and its ink
> nozzle size is larger. There's less of an incentive to produce support for
> the newer inks.
> 
> I have one here, used as a backup for printing colour. If I wanted to use if
> for B&W, what would be the best inkset to use?
> 
> Steve Bell

I used the 1200 with UT1 and the blacks weren't nearly as dense as my new 2100 plus UC inks - the earlier MIS inks had curves that were designed specifically for that printer, but using those curves with UT1 inks yielded disappointing results from me ... and I gave up in the end because of clogs, anyway.

Richard
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Steve,

Last week I finished printing a series of BO photos on
my 1200.  I used the Eboni ink on Dot Works Nature Jet
paper.  This is a 100% cotton paper with no coatings. 
I used it because I had a supply at hand.  I am really
pleased with the results.  I started my B&W printing
around Christmas with a C84 and the EZ-N inkset and
was very pleased with them, but I wanted some larger
versions of the prints too.  Thus my experiment with
the 1200 and BO.  To my eye the 11X16.5 BO prints from
the 1200 looked similar to the difference between an
8X10 from a 35mm negative and an 11X14 from the same
negative.  In this case I was comparing the 10X6.6
EZ-N prints to the 11X16.5 Eboni BO prints. 
Successful experiment, and I'm sure I will be printing
more.  One advantage to the 1200 is that they can be
bought used on eBay very reasonably.

Mike

--- Steve Bell <steve@...> wrote:

> On 19/2/05 6:38 pm, "mojojones2001"
> <mojojones@...> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Why is the 1200 not supported by so many of the
> workflows that include
> > the 1280?  Is it that much different?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > John
> > 
> 
> I suspect because it is much older, so there are
> less about, and its ink
> nozzle size is larger. There's less of an incentive
> to produce support for
> the newer inks.
> 
> I have one here, used as a backup for printing
> colour. If I wanted to use if
> for B&W, what would be the best inkset to use?
> 
> Steve Bell
> 
> 



		
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