Nobody has mentioned the Lyson quad/hex black or small gamut ink-sets. I have bunged in the black inksets (5 shades of grey instead of colours for my 1290) instead of colour cartridges for small runs of cast free b&W prints with no problems (other than requiring that the previous inks and the b&W is properly flushed through before and after the change). Wait until you need to change your colour cartridge, swap it for a black & white one and do all the B&w printing. As there is no colour ink at all, a little fiddling with profile/paper choices choices etc (only having to work with tone, and not balance colour too... much easier) gives a good result for little time and expense.
Marrutt (.com) are always helpful for all of this. Can't see the value of their small gamut inksets though, when surely the same thing can be achieved by partially desaturating etc, using your regular profiled monitor/printer coloured ink setup. To get the subtle colour variations that you are trying to achieve requires that the eqpt is profiled anyway n'est pas? Giles Stokoe =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
