Digital BW, The Print

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence Smith" <lsmith@...>
To: "DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint yahoogroups.com"
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Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Epson 7600/9600 B/W Output Not What I
HopedFor.
>
> At the end of the day, I may still get a 7000 to do my larger piezo
> printing.  However, I bought the 9600 to do color and make big digital
> negatives to use for making platinum prints and if I can also tweak it to
> make good B&W prints than so much better.  I remain confident that it will
> be a viable solution for at least a portion of of my B&W printing...

Lawrence, you follow the 9000 list as well as I understand it. In monochrome
the 9600 prints with only the black ink. Maybe there's an 8 pass facility to
get a better B&W result that way a la 10000. Printing B&W on the 9600 will
use Black, Grey and Lc,Lm,Y for the lightest parts. Will the last not affect
a strange exposure difference on silverprints ? To me it seems that there
must be a difference in (actinic) light if one compares the composite greys
with the single ink greys.

So far I heard only rumours that RIP manufacturers have a Black + Grey
monochrome printing mode for the x600 Epsons. It is a pity that Epson didn't
add an extra grey on the printer, with 3 greys and the droplet sizes of
those printers it would have been easy to get B&W equal to the quad/hexatone
of older models.

Ernst