Digital BW, The Print

> >I don't understand your dMax comment.  The black ink is the blackest you
> >can
> >get out of the printer...right?  If you printed a patch of the darkest
> >black
> >using one "driver", and the same image using the other
> "driver"...how could
> >they differ so significantly?  There should be no dithering going on for
> >the
> >darkest black with either...and it's the same ink...  Have you looked at
> >what it's doing under a microscope?
>
> Its often easy enough with a RIP to increase the amount of ink in a black
> mix, resulting in a darker black.

Hi David,

My point is, there should be NO mix with dMax...it should only be using the
one black position for ink, period!  There also should be no dithering.

> Getting a sharp, non bleeding
> result with
> smooth gradients through the dark tones is always a challenge
> with heavier
> blacks, but simply laying down more ink is easy. On some media,
> adding more
> ink may not make the resulting patch darker, on others it may.

Understood, and agreed...but I'm simply, again, talking about black at the
max.

> I'll admit;
> paper white is pretty much a fixed limit... but max black is not.

Well...it depends.  If you change inks, then it should be the ink that
changes the max.  If you have the same ink, just different "software", then,
I believe, there is something wrong with the software if it doesn't use just
black for max black.

Of course, there is an issue with amount of in, on a printer that has that
control.  But, on a printer that puts a fixed ink drop amount/size, this
should not be an issue.

Regards,

Austin