Digital BW, The Print

> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, aromanocpa@...
> wrote:
>
>> ... why do you use a 220 for color? and if so, what inks for
> archival purposes. Does the quality of a 4x6 through a 8.x10 hold up
> to the more expensive printers?

As Mike replied, the Epson inks are dye based. I have substituted MIS  
PRO inks... the same ones I use in my 2200.

Using MIS PRO inks in every cartridge, the R220 lacks only the light  
black used in the 2200 printer. I cannot believe that this could not  
make a difference in some circumstances, but for ordinary printing  
for "friends, family and 'fridge" the results are excellent, and  
would be as archival as MIS pigments can be. Unless I remember when I  
printed many things around my house I ordinarily can't tell whether I  
used the R220 or 2200. But then, I like photographic images, so I  
tend to look at the pictures rather than the papers, or inks, or  
grain pattern, or dots, or whatever else reveals technique and  
technology. Suffice it to say, I *never* look at an 8x10 from the  
R220 and think, "Hmmm. I like that! I'll have to print it with the  
*good* printer."

MIS didn't have chips for the R220 colors the last time I looked, so  
I have been using the original Epson chips on refillable MIS  
cartridges. The chips reset nicely with the "universal" chip resetter  
from MIS (and others, too, I assume).

And yes, I use Eboni or PhotoBlack according to the printing surface.  
I use the same Epson R220 "black" chip for both of them. Prints fine.  
No clogs so far, either.

I have made my own colour profiles for the combination of R220, MIS  
PRO inks and the papers I use.

I do quite a bit of Black Only printing with the R220. Works nicely  
for T-Max 400 35mm scans.

Myron