Digital BW, The Print

CDTobie@... wrote:

"The R800/R1800 with OEM ink colors are optimized for color, not for 
B&W; those extra primaries don't do anything for grayscale 
(actually, with the OEM driver, they don't do all that much for 
color gamut either, oddly enough), but they could do a lot for 
grayscale if converted... but then you need to use a RIP, and 
special curves or channel controls etc. for those extra inks, since 
they no longer fit the OEM logic of how the printer functions. So 
OEM ink grayscale printing is much better on the R2400 than the 
R1800; you'll see a bigger improvement moving to a grayscale inkset 
for the R1800 than you would for the R2400."

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just trying to understand you correctly, do you think it might be 
worth testing out a neutral gray inkset in an R1800 while leaving in 
the original Red and Blue to try and effect the hue. You see I've 
got a redundant R1800 and I'm trying to find something useful for it 
to do, by the way I'm quite happy playing around with RIP's and 
spectro's,

Jamie