Datacolor User to User Support Group.

On Aug 22, 2009, at 3:58 PM, CDTobie wrote:

> B&W should be dead neutral until you ask it for a tint or cross- 
> tint, and then offer exactly the tint of cross-tint you ask for. A  
> printer that offers selenium and olive as its B&W options is a  
> failure as a black and white printer, which was the basis of my  
> comment in the first place...






I guess it depends on your point of view.  Wet prints were never dead  
neutral.  A straight print out of the fixer had (what I call) a very  
faint olive caste.  Selenium toning would make the blacks "blacker"  
and the whole print (what I call) colder.  The HP does that  
automatically, and I like it.  If other printers really are dead  
neutral, I would be hard pressed to create an ink jet print that  
would match a wet print, which is my goal.