> 2 cents more on this...I've been using a 1280 for over a year and a
> half, that I bought as a new/refurb from Epson....started off with
> pigment MIS "archival color" inkset, CIS, sponged carts, w/eboni in
> the K position. Have never run dye inks through it. Have had no major
> clogs at all, no problems with the CIS at all...just 1-3 cleaning
> cycles occasionally to clean out the K and M heads mainly, no big
> deal...prints perfectly after cleaning. Most of the time it doesn't
> need cleaning. And I don't use this printer more than once every week
> or two (mainly print B/O & sepia with it.) And I live at 7500' in
> desert dry conditions, but do have a humidifier turned on when the
> humidity drops below 50% inside. Just my experience, maybe I'm
> lucky, maybe it has everything to do with not running dye inks first.
> Another Epson I have that I DID run dye inks through at first, simply
> would not subsequently print MIS UT pigments, always clogged, so I
> gave up and switched back to dyes for that one (dye inks are ideal
> for digital negatives on Pictorico film, BTW)...Mark
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Intrinsic
> Pictures <lists@i...> wrote:
>
>>I've loved my trial experience with my C84 and UT-EZ inks
>
> (well...at
>
>>least with the matte papers). Now I want to do the same in a larger
>>format. This seemed to point directly to the 1280, where I could
>
> branch
>
>>out a little into simple toning, or default to the sliders if I
>
> didn't
>
>>want to mess with it.
>>
>>Now I read (and recall reading previously over the years) all the
>>horror stories about the 1280, clogs from hell, dye printers maybe
>
> not
>
>>being the best for pigs, etc. I don't have the time or patience to
>>fiddle with a fussy printer every day. I'm a knowledgeable
>
> Photoshop
>
>>user, but would prefer a more intuitive solution than transfer
>
> curves.
>
>>So is it still possible to get relatively painless 13x19-ish black
>
> &
>
>>white using the Epson driver and UT inks? In an ideal world, they'd
>>match the output from my C84 with EZ-N so I could continue to use
>
> and
>
>>sell both seamlessly.
>>
>>TIA,
>>Doug
>>www.IntrinsicPictures.com
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