First of all, I have searched the forum to read about experiences with the K7-ink. But I have a few questions for the experienced users of this system.
I have printed a lot of BW with older Epson printers (7500 among others) and I use MIS Ultratone ink and the Bowhaus IJC/OPM software. I enjoyed building up my own profiles, define total ink limit, linearize with either a densitometer or a spectrophotometer and frankly experiment to figure out how it works. And the prints were good. I was amazed how good prints I could make from such an old printer as the 7500.
Later I tried to use QTR with Epson K3-ink on newer printers, but a year ago I was forced to take a break from it all. But I remember that printing BW with color ink didnīt make my stomach "tickle". I felt that too much of the work was left to the printer driver. I missed messing around with printing patches with monochrome ink and making the proper measurements to achieve great profiles and printing results.
Getting to the point soon. So now I have ordered the Piezography Selenium K7/MPS set-up for the Epson 3800. It comes with 9 cartridges and allow the user to have all 6 shades of grey, a glossy black, a matte black and Gloss Optimizer (GO) in the printer at the same time. The printmaker can print matte and glossy prints without changing cartridges and flushing the system between prints. I am looking forward to install it.
Everybody speaks warmly about the QTR software for Piezography inks, but I am not comfortable with having to order a $100 custom profile every time a client wants a special paper, or when I find out that I will try new papers.
So I am considering using IJC/OPM again, it will give me full control over the ink distribution for so many papers I want and specially it will give me easy control over the layout of GO. Has anyone of you used the IJC/OPM software with the K7/MPS ink? I would like to get in touch with you to discuss a few things and maybe exchange experiences. I have used it extensively with other inks, but not K7.
I have of course lost my login-information at the Bowhaus website (www.bowhaus.com), to download the software. I e-mailed them but have not received any answer yet. And when I click on the link at the top left on the website ("True Black and White and IJC/OPM") I get to a page only describing the "True Black and White"-software designed for large format Canon printers. Have they stopped selling/developing the IJC/OPM-software?
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