Digital BW, The Print

>... 
> How do you get all those densties with only 2 densities of ink.
> 
> One bottle to fill the C, Y, And M positions and 
>one bottle of black to fill the black position.
> 
> 2 inks. I just don't get it.

The dot size and very high resolution of the C86 allow it.  Recall that the
R800 no longer uses light inks either.  The light inks were only needed
where the dots were too big and the resolution too low.  As technology
advances, the light inks will disappear.  I will not miss them.  Among other
things they flood glossy paper and end up being worse than a more dense ink.
I call them expensive water.

Also, think of how you'd get the lightest individual dots if you were going
to have 3 jets firing.  You'd want 3 identical densities so that each one
could be as light as possible.

It works, and the C86 and R800 technology are probably where we're going in
the near future.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com