Digital BW, The Print

>I did that same thing once using the Epson dyes in my 7000. I
>think I just printed one out as a "quick proof", with the Epson
>driver set to "Black Only", but at 1440. I certainly didn't expect too
>much from the print; I was just looking at some of the details; not
>really going for a "final print". But I too was shocked at how good
>it was, and also how neutral. There's a certain look of perfect
>neutrality, and when you see it, you know it. The black-only nailed
>it. It made me want to pursue getting more richness out of it; that
>might have been the only thing lacking. -Mark Tucker

Mark -

That "look of perfect neutrality" is exactly what I was after. _All_ the
quadtone prints I have seen have at least a subliminal look of being
polychromatic. What I am used to from a B&W print is a single tone,
distributed in various (very finely-grained) ways on a piece of white
paper; the K-only method reproduces or simulates that appearance. It's also
a physically and conceptually simple approach: black ink on white paper is
a very, very old way of creating images, and I like putting myself in the
way of that tradition.

-- Nick

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