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hello I'm wondering if I can use only black ( matt) with this software I have it since 4-5 years and I love it but now I have a epson 3880 that I only need the black matt ink and replacing al the other can get expensive and the are only there to west? when the printer is doing a head cleaning cycle ... but I can't use the printer if there one color missing $$$ so I wnat just use the black Matt and put all generic fill with cleaning liquid to make the printer think there full... the cleaning fuel is 50$ a litre so I will save a lot of money and never get my head dry.....so my question is can I us only black matt and forget about the other ink that I dont use?? or is there another way to tell the printer to print if it,s missing a color ink!?!?

thank you!!

I think you can do that. You could create a profile which only uses black (K).
Hendrik

... but there might be a drawback. The image quality may suffer a bit when you try to represent the highlights with dots of pure black.
Hendrik

Hope this is not a duplicate post.

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After many years of absence, I re-started black and white printing last week, particularly using QTR. I am well versed and experienced in creating QTR curves from scratch. Previously I used Epson 4000 for BO printing on some papers. Particularly I found was Moab Entrada Natural (from 2006/2007 timeframe) produced very good results on the 4000. I remember for the Epson 4000, BO printing on "gloss/luster" papers was never satisfactory. I now use Epson P900, and yesterday I printed and linearized BO on the P900 using QTR set at "2800 Super." The resulting print is gorgeous. The 3880 printer likely has "2880 Super" setting also. At arm's length, the highlight dots are not visible, the ramp is very smooth visually. I can separate tones in 2% increments from paper white to Dmax. In any event, the characteristic of BO that I find most appealing is the graceful way in which the highlights naturally go towards paper white (a and b) tones. If your picture has a white border, the print looks organic to the paper, and the overall tone does not seem to fight against paper white. If there is any interest, I will be glad to send my linearize measurements of L, a, and b from paper white to maximum black. The weird thing on the paper (again, left over from 2006ish timeframe), Dmax is only about 1.6, yet the visual appeal of the resulting print is as good as on Epson Exhibition Fiber (Dmax > 2.4).

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Short answer. Yes it can be done with QTR. And The results can be gorgeous if you have the right paper match.

But this old paper flakes a lot (now and also previously in 2006). So, I am looking for some coating solution because I have more than 100 sheets in 13x19 size left over from many years back.

These are unedited pictures from my cell phone.

1st picture is BO. "2880 Super" setting in QTR.

2nd picture is from My interpretation of "warmish" using K, LK, LLK, M, and LM inks, also using QTR and printed at "1440 Super setting" The warm tone is exaggerated in this cell phone picture.

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Good shadow separation. Trees with details, reflection on water under buildings. These block-up when printing with ABW using Epson Hot Press paper setting. This is not because ABW is incapable, rather because there is no ABW profile/setting for the Estrada paper. Linearizing ABW is easy enough. When printing this picture on actual Epson Hot Press paper, the details are just as perfectly rendered.

Those colors were really bothering me. I believe light spill from work monitors were causing the color cast. Here are more realistic images.

thank you all for your help!!

i forgot to mention I'm doing photogravure on polymer plate that is the rason I need only matt black!

I did the switch of all the ink for some cleaning liquid instead ( exept for the matt black) and all is working fine so it will be much cheaper now to run this printer!! only 50$ (canadian) for 1 litre of cleaning liquid I should be able to refill 3 time every color !! for me it's a 650$ saving..happy hope this help any one !

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thank you!!

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