Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven 
Karafyllakis" <steve@s...> wrote:
>
> To me it looks like the drop is coarser, though some of it may be due 
> to dot gain. In any case, it is decidedly coarser than the PK drop. 
> From what I saw of the 2200 it seemed set up like that also: switch 
to 
> PK and the proplet gets smaller and smoother. I think it is done on 
> purpose as a way of coping with the heavier pigment load of matte 
Ink, 
> though I may be wrong.
> 


The Epson matte black has a dye component, which of coarse spreads more 
when it hits the paper, so it's probably dot gain. Eboni should show a 
smaller dot than the Epson matte black. But they also could default to 
the larger drop with matte paper, I haven't ever looked in a service 
manual to see what it was doing.