Digital BW, The Print

----- Original Message -----
From: "thedigitaldog" <andrew@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 7:14 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: News on Epson 2200 Gray Balancer SW


> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Karl Wolz" <wolzphoto@w...>
> wrote:

> >While I appreciate that one would want the
> > capability of printing both color and B&W, if one's main reason for
> > having the printer were for B&W use, why not use grey-tone inks and not
> > be concerned with color shifts?
>
> That would be the best solution for B&W only printing.

Before Epson launched the new Ultrachrome printers there was some
speculation what would be a nice printer for colour and B&W. With unlimited
head numbers one can get anything frome Hexachrome to Hexatone.
However a six head printer with today's variable, small droplet sizes could
have been a CMY+3K printer. In monochrome the 3K's would have been
sufficient for a good quality B&W. Monochrome on the Ultrachrome printers
means only black ink printing. Someone measured the grey of the 9600 with a
spectrometer and it is quite yellow he wrote, not the right start for a B&W
printer. If Epson thinks of a follow up with other ink hues for the
Ultrachrome models then this CMY3K could be a nice concept, the seventh head
used  for an extra
ultramarine kind of) blue. The lightest K could run to 0% and replace part
of the more visible full CMY dots in composite greys, something that the
existing extra grey ink doesn't do now.

Ernst