Has anyone personally used a roland FJ 5000 series printer for color or B+W printing and an epson 7800 or HP Z3100 printer. I am considering cone B+W inks for a roland printer. I currently use an HP Z3100 and am very happy with the results, but always looking for a higher quality B+W printer.
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Is the driver or RIP capable to drive a 6-7 quad inkset on the Roland ?
If not you will not get better B&W than your Z3100 delivers.
If you want to improve on the Z3100 you could start by using the B&W mode of the Z3100 properly and make a QTR custom B&W profile for it to get the best perceptual tone range for a given paper.
Improving on that you need a driver or RIP that can drive a 6-7-8 quad inkset on a printer. QTR is limited to Epsons + for the image quality the more recent models are the best choice then, the 10000 may be on the edge in quality comapred to the Z3100. Bowhous IJC/OPM will do the same as QTR I guess. There was some news it could drive the Canon models as well but I have not seen much since. ImagePrint and Ergosoft's RIPs have improved B&W modes but whether they cover more than for example QTR is beyond my knowledge.
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Ernst Dinkla
Try:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wide_Inkjet_Printers/
