Digital BW, The Print

----- Original Message -----
From: <jeades1@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 10:11 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Number of Nozzles--Better?


> Added after several responses to the message below. None of the
> messages referred to the nozzle count.Do more nozzles available
make
> for a better and smoother print in Black only printing. 512
opposed
> to 48. Does anyone know?

Nozzle quantity often reflects higher printing speeds. Depending
on the driver it could give smoother printing. For example the
10000,10000CF and 10600 are Epson's high speed wide format models
with the highest number of nozzles per head of all the wide
format models. When the 10000 was launched it was for high
production in the first place, later on Epson added an 8 stroke
black ink only print setting that gives very nice monochrome
prints. So if the driver is meant for speed only then more
nozzles doesn't help in better prints.

I have no knowledge of the Canon printers, speed seems to be good
as far as I know. If there isn't a Canon driver that has a
special extra extra quality for monochrome prints you could check
whether GIMP-print could cover that now or get a setting added on
request. I even don't know whether Canons can be driven by
GIMP-print.

Ernst