Digital BW, The Print

At 03:12 PM 2/10/2003 +0000, DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
wrote:
>Someone else mentioned (so it must be
>true) that some driver/RIP didn't use one of the magentas in order to
>reduce metamerism.


Someone else suggested that they didn't use YELLOW,
which makes no sense because there's only one yellow
so if you don't use it you get cyan+magenta which = BLUE!

Anyway your comment illustrates EXACTLY what I was talking
about before on this topic, which is that the whole topic of black
and white digital printing is swimming in rumors and speculation
and B.S. and alchemy and snake oil, and I want to know when
the all the BS is going to evaporate and we're going to get our feet
on solid ground on this topic!

It doesn't take Albert Einstein to examine some IP prints under
a loupe (or simply scan them in with a hi-rez flatbed) so we
can KNOW what colors it's using, and stop speculating!
This isn't rocket science, guys.  I've got plenty of scans from
my printers, including my 2200 at 2880 DPI)  on my website,
so it's not exactly hard.