Digital BW, The Print

I bought a new r2400 recently and on the advice of a friend, purchased a replacement set of 
MIS K4 inks for when the epson carts run out.  It is for B/W only work.

Well I ran out today, so I plugged in the two k4 carts for the empties (LLK and LM).  Imagine 
my suprise when the first two prints out of the printer had big magenta splotches on them.

Not happy.  So I took the cart out, reset it and now its printing ABW with a massive magenta 
cast.  

Any ideas on what is going on here?

Luckily I was printing on epson prem glossy as a test print instead of wasting my good 
Museo/Innova paper.

>I bought a new r2400 recently and ... a replacement set of 
> MIS K4 inks ...

> It is for B/W only work.

The MIS K4 inkset is a standard color replacement inkset.  If you're only
going to use it for B&W, I'd recommend you replace the yellow with a pure
carbon ink -- with the C88 EZ-Warm yellow being the logical choice.

>Well I ran out today, so I plugged in the two k4 carts for the 
> empties (LLK and LM). Imagine my surprise when the first two 
>prints out of the printer had big magenta splotches on them.

>Not happy. So I took the cart out, reset it and now its printing 
>ABW with a massive magenta cast. 

Did you remember to remove the tabs from the top of the carts?

The MIS carbon in the LLK spot is more magenta than the Epson LLK.  That
could account for a shift in the tone relative to the OEM inks.

In general, the MIS K4 inks have been working fine for me.  In addition to
the carbon being warmer than the Epson "neutral" inks (which are slightly
less yellow and slightly green), the MIS magenta is slightly different.
Different profiles are needed.

Good luck with the setup.

Paul
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