Digital BW, The Print

Hello. I am going to purchase an Epson R220 printer this week to print 
B&W. I want to purchase MIS Inks for this purpose. I have looked at 
Paul Roark's great site. I may be somewhat dense, but can someone with 
experience recommend an ink set that will produce neutral to cold B&W 
prints? Also, it seems that there may be a quality control issue with 
MIS inks. Can someone verify this? Thank you.

Francis

>... going to purchase an Epson R220 printer this week 
> to print B&W. I want to purchase MIS Inks for this purpose. ...

The first inkset to take a look at is the UT-R2, described here: 
http://home1.gte.net/res09aij/R220_R2_Readme.pdf   It is essentially a
monotone approach that gives one control of tones by installing different
combinations of warm (carbon) and neutral/cool inks. 

Additionally, I have the UT-3D running on my 220.  
See http://home1.gte.net/res09aij/UT-3D_Readme.pdf  This inkset will allow
one to use the ColorVision Print Fix Pro software & spectro to profile
papers.  Then a very useful range of tones can be achieved by altering the
color balance in Photoshop, with the changes visible ("soft-proofed") on the
monitor when the ICC is used in a custom proof setup (View>Proof
setup>Custom) or in image is converted to that profile (Edit>convert to).  I
also have ICCs made with the QTR Create-ICC approach posted for a number of
papers and tones.

From what I can tell, the QC issues at MIS have been taken care of.  They
are now adjusting their LK inputs to a known standard, which solved the
problems we were having with this inkset.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com

Hello Francis

A quick and easy solution would be the UT-R2 Neutral inks.  I have used them
with that printer and they work very well indeed.

Regards

David Whistance

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  Hello. I am going to purchase an Epson R220 printer this week to print
  B&W. I want to purchase MIS Inks for this purpose. I have looked at
  Paul Roark's great site. I may be somewhat dense, but can someone with
  experience recommend an ink set that will produce neutral to cold B&W
  prints? Also, it seems that there may be a quality control issue with
  MIS inks. Can someone verify this? Thank you.

  Francis



  


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Hello Francis,

>Hello. I am going to purchase an Epson R220 printer this week to print 
>B&W. I want to purchase MIS Inks for this purpose. I have looked at 
>Paul Roark's great site. I may be somewhat dense, but can someone with 
>experience recommend an ink set that will produce neutral to cold B&W 
>prints? Also, it seems that there may be a quality control issue with 
>MIS inks. Can someone verify this? Thank you.

It's possible to combine the warm and cool versions of R2 and get a
variable tone ink set.  Details for how to do this can be found in
article #10 at the link below.

Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm