Digital BW, The Print

Hi Peter,

> B.O. printing is the poor-man's way of making neutral black and
> white prints with an inkjet printer.   The printer makes grayscales
> by printing black dots in various ratios to the underlying white
> paper.   Here's a greatly enlarged sample: http://studio-
> nelson.com/inkjet/ijimages/edbo1a.jpg of a 5% black section of a
> wedge.
>
> Because the dots have to be spaced at quite a distance to achieve
> light grays they are quite visible and tend to create a noticeable
> texturing in skin tones, light sky tones and other places on the
> print where a hextone print would be smooth.   Some people don't
> find them objectionable, and some people even LIKE it, but most
> people switch to one of the alternatives as soon as they can afford
> it.

Understood...but what is there to doing this aside from printing using the
standard driver and selecting "Black Only" that was being heralded in
another post?

Regards,

Austin