Digital BW, The Print

Since my 7000 is currently the victim of another brain damaged Epson 
Tech screw uo, I have had some time to play with my 1280.

Just for the heck of it I printed a grayscale image using the black 
only ink. As I have not done this since the days of my 3000, I was 
amazed at the quality of the images, the almost non-existsnt dots, 
and smoothness of tonal quality.

I am wondering if there are possibilities here that have not been 
examined.

Mike

Mike,

There was a really long dicussion of this a couple of months ago. Someone
was saying they preferred the black only print, and we were all so
brainwashed into thinking quads were the only way to go that everyone
thought he was crazy. Then a few people finally tried it and found out it
looked a lot better than they thought it would. It was a pretty funny
thread. If you jump into the archives here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint/message/1915

...you can look through some of the discussion.

-Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: mkravit [mailto:mkravit@...]
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 10:49 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Another 1280 observation - Grayscale


Since my 7000 is currently the victim of another brain damaged Epson
Tech screw uo, I have had some time to play with my 1280.

Just for the heck of it I printed a grayscale image using the black
only ink. As I have not done this since the days of my 3000, I was
amazed at the quality of the images, the almost non-existsnt dots,
and smoothness of tonal quality.

I am wondering if there are possibilities here that have not been
examined.

Mike



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In a message dated 12/13/01 10:51:27 PM, mkravit@... writes:

<< Since my 7000 is currently the victim of another brain damaged Epson 
Tech screw uo, I have had some time to play with my 1280.

Just for the heck of it I printed a grayscale image using the black 
only ink. As I have not done this since the days of my 3000, I was 
amazed at the quality of the images, the almost non-existsnt dots, 
and smoothness of tonal quality.

I am wondering if there are possibilities here that have not been 
examined.

Mike >>

Hi Mike,

Many people have been doing this and the 2000P will perform nearly as well as 
the 1280, especially if the head alignment is done properly.

-Andy Darlow