Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "qdfb" <qdb@b...> wrote:
> Your choices with the 2200 / ImagePrint combo are to print colour 
> with Ultrachrome color inks, or to print B&W, also using the 
> Ultrachrome inks.  In the latter case, there is a seperate inks 
> setting ("gray matte pigment") that you select, along with a special 
> profle (one with "gray" in the name) that activates the tint picker.
> 
> You could print a gray image without the tint picker - just a 
regular 
> desaturated RGB image - but you may not then get the same B&W 
quality 
> you'd get from the dedicated profiles designed for the best B&W 
> printing.  But you could then at least colorise part of your image.
> 
> Or the third alternative would be to use ImagePrint to print to a 
> dedicated B&W printer with quad inks (MIS, Piezo).  There is support 
> for this in the program.
> 
> Cripes, I'm starting to sound like Andrew Rodney :-)
> --
> Quentin
> 

<g>.
Thanks all. Too bad- the 2200 seems like a neat printer to start to 
have an option for spot color, though I don't know what software 
hurdles would be involved. Seems like the hardware is there.
Jim H.