Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 3/7/06 2:51:34 PM, paul.roark@... writes:


> I suppose most of us have tried to make good B&W with color inks, but it's 
> a
> frustrating exercise that will probably fail.
> 

And the Epson 3000 would be the poster child for the weakness of color inks 
for B&W prints verus B&W inks for B&W prints, as its makes very poor B&W prints 
with the stock color inks, and suprisingly good ones with the right B&W 
inkset (and a bit of luck with machine feed, head condition, etc)...

The posterchild for successful color ink B&W prints would be the new Epson 
2400 and 4800 printers. In addition to their own B&W mode, they print quite 
reasonable B&W through a good color profile, in color ink mode. Not quite as 
ironclad as specialty ink prints, but lightyears ahead of what the 3000 would 
produce with color inks!

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Unit
Datacolor Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com


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