Note that these are not K3 printers, i.e. while they have matte black and photo black, they don't have LK or LLK. So there are no QTR curves for them. They're not regarded as good B&W printers if you're using OEM inks.
My recommendation of them is for Jon Cone's Piezography K7 / P2 monchrome inksets, for the reasons I stated. They've always been regarded as "outliers" because of their unusual hi-gloss OEM inkset, but I've recently discovered that they're actually the same as the K3 eight channel printers and can be treated and used as such with QTR. There's more discussion of this over on the IJM forum.
I guess you could also use them for Paul Roark's inksets.
I hope that answers your question. Thanks again to Roy and his helpers (to keep this on-topic).
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Hi Brian:
Which printers are you referring to in the last paragraph below….the R 1900/2000?
Elliot
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There will also be the P400 to support in a few months. I hope that it's possible. I suspect that in fact for piezography use it would be possible to tell QTR that it's an R1900 or R2000, since I am fairly sure that it's almost identical to the R2000, with only cosmetic upgrades and the new inkset.
This family of printers are really great for piezo, because they're the last of the eight channel carts-on-head printers, which are easy to maintain, swap inksets and hibernate. And in recent times I've also discovered that they actually closely related to the x880 printers, so much so that I have been able to migrate x880 curves to the R1900 / R2000 simply by swapping the order of the inks around in the .quad file, which means that I and one other user have been able to use P2 rather than K7 on this printer. I don't understand why more people don't use them. They're a much better built printer than the 1430, and not that much more expensive with current cash-backs. Same will apply to the P400.