Digital BW, The Print

I am in the process of trying to clear nozzles on the cyan and light 
cyan positions.

I use the printer for sepia and carbon settings using UT2 inks and I 
only recently ordered bottles of new inks .  Do these use the cyan 
positions?  If not I can continue with the blocked cyan, or maybe I can 
fiddle with the curves?

Help would be appreciated.  

Colin
http://www.colinconwayphotography.com

Colin,

> I am in the process of trying to clear nozzles on the cyan and light
> cyan positions.
> 
> I use the printer for sepia and carbon settings using UT2 inks and I
> only recently ordered bottles of new inks.  Do these use the cyan
> positions?  If not I can continue with the blocked cyan, or maybe I can
> fiddle with the curves?

With the sepia and carbon curves the cyan channel (red curve) is only used
to turn on the black ink.  Some cyan does contribute a bit of density, but
you may not be able to see any difference.  The fact that you only print
with the sepia and carbon inks, thus using very little cyan, is probably why
those jets are clogged.  You may have a perfectly fine sepia and carbon
printer there -- with clogged cyan jets.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark" 
<paul.roark@v...> wrote:
>
> Colin,
> You may have a perfectly fine sepia and carbon
> printer there -- with clogged cyan jets.
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
>
Thank you, Paul, as ever, for your prompt response.

I will have the printer sitting on cleaning fluid until Saturday and 
will see how it goes.  Recently I have been printing mostly colour 
(am I allowed to use that word on this list?) from my trip this 
spring to the US SW deserts but returned to make a sepia print and 
a 'neutral' print for the UK print exchange group.  That was when I 
found some of the cyan nozzles blocked.  A short while ago, a member 
of that group asked how things were with UT2 on the 1290: I responded 
saying I experienced few problems which were easily resolved: clearly 
my reply was the real problem! <g>

Not using the neutral settings is as a result of my conversion to BO 
using Eboni on my 2100!

Cheers,

Colin

www.colinconwayphotography.com