Digital BW, The Print

When printing BO does the 2200 use the light black. Can I use Ebony diluted 50% to get close to the same thing.
Dennis

Dennis, once (only) I found that BO produced banding, and I had to switch to greyscale. Otherwise BO works great for me with the 2200, in spite of Epson's warning to the contrary.

Alan Scharf
Saskatoon
ascharf@...


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I don't have any banding problems, I don't have any problems at all currently. I already check greyscale and black ink only. I just wanted to know if it used light black when printing BO. I'm switching to ebony and was wondering if I needed to dilute ebony for the light black position.

Dennis
--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Alan Scharf <ascharf@...> wrote:

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> Dennis, once (only) I found that BO produced banding, and I had to switch to greyscale. Otherwise BO works great for me with the 2200, in spite of Epson's warning to the contrary.
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> Alan Scharf
> Saskatoon
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"baecht1" <dbaecht@...> wrote:
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> When printing BO does the 2200 use the light black.

No, I don't think it does.

> Can I use Ebony diluted 50% to get close to the same thing.

LK is about 30% PK.  If you want to use a dilute Eboni, try 18% Eboni.  The density graphs are not totally parallel for Eboni 18% and LK.  So, QTR profiles that are based on LK may need re-linearizing (at least) if 18% Eboni is used instead of LK.

The dilute Eboni will not, of course, be glossy compatible, and it will be slightly more neutral than LK.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com

I have to ask, what is it diluted with?

"danspixels" <proulx.dan@...> wrote:
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> I have to ask, what is it diluted with?

I dillute Eboni with what I call C6 base.  See http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/Ink-Mixing.pdf

I've been using this Eboni mix as well as MIS's Eboni-6 for a couple of years now.  I can't tell any significant difference aside from the fact that the generic C6 base is more compatible with other inks.

The C6 base does not have any bioside in it.  I have never seen any difference, but I've heard of one report that suggests there can be biological activity in it.  I'm experimenting with copper ions in the water as a biocide.  But, as of now, I'm just using the current C6 base with none of this.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com