Digital BW, The Print

Greetings,

Having a fun evening here with the R2400. After having printed three 
varieties of a B&W print with the settings "neutral" with one of the 
three settings "normal", "dark", and "darker" and finding that
"darker" 
matched my calibrated screen best (6500K), I thought it would be fun
to 
play with the color toning wheel.

The color toning point is moved using a combination of horizontal and 
vertical click/movements toward the edge of the color wheel. If one 
goes straight horizontal or straight vertical, one can get 75 
click/increments. If one uses equal horizontal and vertical
movements, 
as one would want to do to warm up an image, one can get 53
increments. 
This is the route I chose.

I started with 10 clicks up and 10 click to the right and the results 
were very obvious "sepia" type toning and the effect was obvious and 
dramatic with a very warm tone. 53 clicks would be wildly sepia. I
then 
did trials of 5 up 5 right, and 2 up 2 right. The last 2 click move 
represents ~4% of the available motion available and still made an 
easily noticeable warming of the image. Without a comparison, a
viewer 
would still see this image as neutral, but with the comparison to the 
unaltered print, there was an obvious subtle warming. I suspect just 
one click up and right will also be visible and will just take the 
slight cold edge off the print.

Also did a quick look at costs so far. I have printed 3 8x8s, and 4 
3.5x3.5s. The image had some very dark areas. Here is what the ink 
tanks had left:

LLK 95%
LM 90%
LC 95%
LK 90%
PK 85%
C 95%
M 95%
Y 97%

I had loaded the machine with ink and turned it on and off twice.

Total square inches was 241. Cheapest ink I can find is at Atlex at 
11.20 per cart so the cost is .027/sq", so and 8x10 cost $2.16 in ink.

Just one man's experience so far.....

Scott