Digital BW, The Print

Hi Clayton, 

Sorry, when I just made the previous reply, I had missed the last paragraph of your 
note.

So I would like to add, "Baloney". 

You certainly can get blacker than 100% WARM black ink.

and BO has a more limited tonal range too.

Bill

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones" <cj@c...> 
wrote:
> Hello Bill,
> 
> >Also blacks without meaningful density 
> 
> To the contrary, because the blacks are rendered with 100% black ink
> and not a mixture of black and gray (as _some_ methods do), the BO
>> than what other methods produce, given the same ink.
> 
> 
> >Just  compare one to a silver gelatin darkroom print (well made 
> >of course).
> 
> If you are comparing pigment inks to silver prints and want to use
> disparaging remarks, fine.  But don't use that as an excuse to dump on
> the BO technique.  It's blacks are surpassed by none.  You can't get
> any blacker than 100% coverage with 100% black ink.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Clayton
> 
> 
> Info on black and white digital printing at    
> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm