Digital BW, The Print

Actually, I think the new 7600/9600's are only two jets short.  I think that
a black plus two grays would have been adequate with variable droplet
technology for B&W printing...but apparently the black and gray alone come
up short.  And while I'm on it...why the heck didn't Epson just put in an
extra nozzle so that we could have both the photo and the matte black in the
same printer without switching inks and wasting an entire cartridge!  For
color I think I would be happy with the 6 color printers now running 3rd
party inks (either the Indelibles or MIS perpetuals which have pretty large
gamuts, low metamerism and are 100% pigment) provided that someone (like
Epson) calibrated their drivers for them...or if someone came out with an
easy to calibrate third party RIP.  From what I understand the ultrachromes
are even better...so that should be good enough for color and BW toning. So
I guess that I'm up to 9 nozzles now:  Photo Black, Matte Black, Medium
Gray, Light Gray, Cyan, Photo Cyan, Magenta, Photo Magenta, Yellow.  An
extra nozzle for applying a clear coat might not be a bad idea either...and
then well a nozzle for green and orange...well 13...and...this is why they
don't listen to us (me)!

Robert

On 5/13/02 11:23 PM, "iwasnvrhere" <iwasnvrhere@...> wrote:

> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Robert Morrison
> <rmorrison@p...> wrote:
>> On 5/13/02 9:03 PM, "iwasnvrhere" <iwasnvrhere@y...> wrote:
> 
> I wish...I wish...I wish...I could have one 7000 class machine that
>> would make fine art quality BW and color prints...but I don't see it
>> happening soon 
> 
>  Probably not. I think to get the level of quality for a fine art
> print we'll need a printer with at least 12 ink positions (although
> 16 would be pratically perfect). The only printer out there right now
> with 12 indepedent ink slots is a Colorspan Displaymaker. So I
> woudn't say it's a pipe dream -maybe one that's going to take awhile
> to be realized.
> 
> Jeff