Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones" 
<cj@c...> wrote:
> Hello Peter,
> 
> > Just do the math.  At 2880x1440 DPI (the maximum for the 2200), 
the 
> > printer can produce 4147200 dots/in^2.   If you are rendering an 
> > image at 300 PPI each pixel in the original image gets only 
enough 
> > real estate on the paper for 46 printer dots.   Since each dot of 
> > black ink can only be black or ~black, that's not NEARLY enough 
to 
> > represent a full tonal range!
> 
> Sorry, that's just theory.  I _know_, from real experience,
> that I can print both high and low contrast images with
> the BO technique and get beautifully rendered prints that
> match the digital images accurately.

In your subjective opinion.   Lots of other people DON'T like the way 
BO printing handles contrast.

> It's a fact I can demonstrate.

To yourself.


>   Everything is just a few shades of gray,

AH-HA!!

That's your problem.   As I said, do the math.  The problem with BO 
printing is that it can only represent "a few shades of gray".   In 
other words, as I described above, it doesn't have enough tonal 
resolution to represent every possible shade of gray in your image.