Digital BW, The Print

Yes, I use the color cartridges, not just black.  That's how I can control 
the tone of the image.  The driver does have a box to check "Grayscale" and 
that produces nice images as well, but I don't know whether that's a black 
only process or just uses what Canon thinks is the right mix of colors to 
get a good B&W print.  I'm trying to match the tone of chemical prints at 
the moment, so don't use that setting much.  But I may do so next year when 
I (probably) won't have the same interest in matching another print.

As to the refillable cartridges, I got mine from Inkjetgoodies, but I don't 
know if they ship internationally.  Buying the starter set of cartridges, 
syringes and inks puts the price per filled cartridge at about $2.00US.  If 
I just buy the inks next time the cost per cartridge goes down to about 
$0.85US, although the materials that came with the starter set suggest that 
there is a finite life to the cartridges (about 10 refills) which would 
raise the ongoing cost a bit.

Hope you enjoy your Canon, I know I certainly like mine.

Cheers,
Kip

At 10/11/2002 10:13 AM +0200, Tom wrote, in part:

>Thanks for your informative post! Does the above mean you use the color
>cartridges for B/W printing? Or do you use only the black one? Anyway,
>good to hear there are alternatives for the Canon inks, here (in the
>Netherlands) also, but didn't know about refillable cartridges for this
>printer (S900 - that I'm planning to buy - and S9000 use the same)