Digital BW, The Print

Have set up the R200 & Media Street Inks.

I have just loaded Media Street Quadtone Inks and a new/refurbished Epson
R200 as well as the Quadtone RIP software. Per Media Street, I then loaded
the standard Epson Drivers.  When using the normal PhotoShop print routine
the Epson gives a message that the wrong ink cartridges are installed. In
running the RIP program, it recognizes the R200, but the print button is not
highlighted so it will not print. What is missing?

As an aside, I am not at all impressed with the customer support from media
street. How does their quad tone offering compare with others in image
quality, such as those by Cone? I want to get this one working and a clear
understanding of the tradeoffs in "systems" before purchasing just another
printer and ink set. Obviously, the quadtone name is widely used and I would
expect considerable differences between the Media Street quadtones and those
of the Piezo/Platinum/Metallic quadtones such as Cone's, OR NOT??

So, my objective is to first get this sytem up and working and then make the
step up to the next level. This is something of a learning curve and I am
experiencing some confusion with the marketing verbiage.

Clarence W. Walker,   
Creative Expression Photography
http://www.creativeexpressiononline.com
Commercial, fine-art, and stock

Clarence, I have been quite pleased with Paul Roark's
UT-R2 (Warm) set for my R220. It is available from MIS
and so-far they have been OK for me. It is pure
Carbon, just the right amount of warmth (for me) on
HPR and it prints very well with Paul's ICC profiles. 
I don't think the profiles will work with the R200,
but the ink-set will, I believe.  If I understand
correctly, this set uses 3 dilutions of Carbon in 6
positions with either Eboni or PK in the Black
position and to my eye it is almost as smooth as
Cone's NK7 in my 2200.  I wasn't aware Cone makes the
NK6 ink-set for the R200, but maybe I'm not
up-to-date, or you can fill your own...Michael
vendrell

--- Clarence Walker <creative-expression@...>
wrote:

> Have set up the R200 & Media Street Inks.
> 
> I have just loaded Media Street Quadtone Inks and a
> new/refurbished Epson
> R200 as well as the Quadtone RIP software. Per Media
> Street, I then loaded
> the standard Epson Drivers.  When using the normal
> PhotoShop print routine
> the Epson gives a message that the wrong ink
> cartridges are installed. In
> running the RIP program, it recognizes the R200, but
> the print button is not
> highlighted so it will not print. What is missing?
> 
> As an aside, I am not at all impressed with the
> customer support from media
> street. How does their quad tone offering compare
> with others in image
> quality, such as those by Cone? I want to get this
> one working and a clear
> understanding of the tradeoffs in "systems" before
> purchasing just another
> printer and ink set. Obviously, the quadtone name is
> widely used and I would
> expect considerable differences between the Media
> Street quadtones and those
> of the Piezo/Platinum/Metallic quadtones such as
> Cone's, OR NOT??
> 
> So, my objective is to first get this sytem up and
> working and then make the
> step up to the next level. This is something of a
> learning curve and I am
> experiencing some confusion with the marketing
> verbiage.
> 
> Clarence W. Walker,\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd
> Creative Expression Photography
> http://www.creativeexpressiononline.com
> Commercial, fine-art, and stock 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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