Digital BW, The Print

>>Really, can metamerism be a characteristic of a printer (the hardware),
as opposed to the driver and/or the inks ? That is discouraging indeed.

If a printer uses zero or one gray inks, then yes, metamerism is a function of that printer, in the sense that it can't be escaped using the printer with OEM driver and inks. Because the only way to mix grays (other than a coarse black dithering) is to mix a lot of full color ink to create the grays. By the time the 2400 came out, there were two grays, and this was no longer an issue. However, using third party inks and a third party driver can produce low metamerism prints on the 2200, even though OEM components cannot. 

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Imaging Color Solutions
Datacolor inc. 
cdtobie@...
www.datacolor.com

On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:32 PM, "John" <jge@...> wrote:

> Really, can metamerism be a characteristic of a printer (the hardware),
> as opposed to the driver and/or the inks ? That is discouraging indeed.


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