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3880 6K + LM + LC ??

2016-03-22 by goch@...

In 2012 Paul was using a 6K+LC+LM setup for an Epson 4000. He has since moved on to other projects.

I'm thinking of converting my 3880 to this setup. (I want to have the possibility of glossy as well as matte paper.)

Is there any reason why I could/should not vary Paul's ink placements so that LLK is placed the the 3880 LLK slot (4000 has no LLK, so he used the Y position), and PK is in the Y position?

For those of you who have forgotten the setup, MK, LK, LC and LM were in their normal places. LLK went into the Y slot, while the C and M slots were filled with UT7-C and UT7-LC inks (shades of grey, not cyan!). The 4000 had a dedicated slot for PK.

Myron

Re: [QuadtoneRIP] 3880 6K + LM + LC ??

2016-03-22 by Paul Roark

It shouldn't matter where the inks are. The setup won't be Epson driver compatible anyway.

The main issue with the LC and LM as separate inks is that most people don't seem to be able to profile them very easily. For this reason, if I update the approach I'll probably use a variant of the EbVT toner, but using MIS r800 gloss optimizer as the dilution base (75% base to 25% Canon color inks). That could then be in the Y position and it'd not only be Epson driver compatible (as well as QTR, of course) and also be much easier to profile, though, of course, less flexible in that the Lab A would be fixed by the toner's blue to cyan mix ratio.

Note that I use QTR for virtually everything I print even if the particular inkset is Epson driver compatible. However, there are a lot of people outside of this forum who want to be able to print with the Epson driver. Particularly for the Windows platform, an Epson driver, ICC workflow has a lot of appeal to many.

Paul

www.PaulRoark.com

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On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 8:37 AM, goch@... [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

In 2012 Paul was using a 6K+LC+LM setup for an Epson 4000. He has since moved on to other projects.

I'm thinking of converting my 3880 to this setup. (I want to have the possibility of glossy as well as matte paper.)

Is there any reason why I could/should not vary Paul's ink placements so that LLK is placed the the 3880 LLK slot (4000 has no LLK, so he used the Y position), and PK is in the Y position?

For those of you who have forgotten the setup, MK, LK, LC and LM were in their normal places. LLK went into the Y slot, while the C and M slots were filled with UT7-C and UT7-LC inks (shades of grey, not cyan!). The 4000 had a dedicated slot for PK.

Myron

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3880 6K + LM + LC ??

3880 6K + LM + LC ??

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