Digital BW, The Print

I've been using a 7600 with MIS UT7  CFS system for a couple of  years. I'm 
not a techie, and I've never had a problem that couldn't be  solved by someone 
out there in the Epson Wide Format group or MIS. At the  very beginning, I had 
a clogging problem while it was still under warranty.  After the tech-man 
made a house call, he advised me to put a cool  mist humidifier near the printer. 
That worked, but after a while the hum  drove me nuts. Instead, for the last 
year or so, I put 3 wet sponges inside over  the printhead, re-wetting them 
every night. Sometimes, days go by  without printing, while I'm scanning and 
working on images, but I  usually get a perfect nozzle check - or at worst have 
to run a few cleaning  cycles - never yet the heavy-duty ones. I don't use 
spectrometers and  densometers and all that jazz - just my eyes, and they tell me 
that the  MIS  pigment inks are beautiful, the system easy to install, and   
the  people responsive. I haven't yet found a better paper than HPR to use with 
 this setup. I read all the evaluations on paper on this forum,and am still  
waiting to hear if there's a paper that gives better results with the MIS pig  
inks. Even my stubborn darkroom nay-sayer  friends admit the prints  look 
pretty good. The blacks are deep and rich and the whites glow.
              Good Luck.
                   Arlene


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