Digital BW, The Print

Interesting that the 7800 "Black" driver option behaves differently  
compared to the same option in the 2400 driver.  The latter produces  
a greenish black print and under magnification you can see CMY dots.   
Sounds like the 7800 is doing true BO.

On Mar 19, 2006, at 3:53 AM, joemulligan_68 wrote:

> I hope to chime in.  I purchased a 7800 two weeks ago which has the
> latest 2.7 driver being run on Mac OSX 10.3.  From reading on this
> forum, I was under the impression that there is no Black mode for
> the K3 printers.  Well, there is a setting.  I have the option of
> choosing Color, Advanced B&W, or Black.  Out of curiosity, I printed
> one image under Black mode on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper.  The result
> was a very warm print with good detail.  Looks similar to the prints
> I would get when printing BO with my 4000.  The image bronzes while
> the same print on Advanced B&W does not.  Now I wonder whether the
> PK on the K3 inkset is actually the same as the old Ultrachromes.
> Maybe someone with more experience with the x800 printers can
> comment.
>
> JM
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "dgattarino"
> <dgattarino@...> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Julian,
>> my Epson software daesnt have that setting you are mentioning.
>> Regards,
>> Daniela
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton
> Jones"
>> <cj@> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello Julian,
>>>
>>>> My R2400 Epson software has a setting for BLACK, under "print
>>>> settings">"color" .
>>>
>>> Now you have my curiosity up, but I can't find this.  Can you
> describe
>>> in more detail where you see it?  Many thanks.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Clayton
>>>
>>>
>>> Info on black and white digital printing at
>>> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
>>>
>>
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