Digital BW, The Print

Hello Ernst,

Thank you for your enlightening answer; so far it's the only one that 
clarifies the reason for number of nozzles. It doesn't necessarily 
mean better output for the prints, just faster. I belong to another 
newsgroup for Canon printers and there is some information trickling 
in there too. Now I'm back to where I started---Epson or Canon? There 
are so many workflows for the Epson that make it appealing and the 
refilling of cartridges which offsets the price of ink that is making 
me think twice and lean toward Epson now. Decisions! Decisions!

Your friend in photography,

Johnny Eades

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Ernst Dinkla" 
<E.Dinkla@c...> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <jeades1@s...>
> 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