Digital BW, The Print

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Thank you for the replies and the printer suggestions!

Paul D. DeRocco wrote:

>Every inkjet printer I've seen has at least a separate black cart.
>The only color ink used would be the small quantity that's wasted
>whenever the printer has to run a cleaning cycle.

I wonder whether there's any inkjet (not an Epson, I bet) that would
be willing to print in black-only ink with _empty_ color cartridges --
just empty, dummy cartridges to fill the space -- or whether every
injet printer will refuse to go on if its color cartridges are empty.
Anyone ever tried this?

Another question: Does anyone happen to know whether the Canon i960
gives one the option of printng in Black-only ink? (I seem to
remember reading that the i950 does not.). I use a Mac, if that makes
any difference.

Patrick Donegan (suggesting a higher resolution laser printer) wrote:

>Try looking at the PagePro 1350W from Konica/Minolta to see
>if it fits your needs. I'm sure there are other printers out
>there,produced by the likes of HP, XEROX, Brother, IBM,
>Lexmark, Okidata,and Panasonic...to name a few.

I looked at the PagePro site (at a different model that is mac
compatible), and one thing that's nice is you can do a "test drive" by
sending in a file of your own and they will send you back a print of
your file from any of their printers -- so I might just try this.

I also did a little bit of searching on other 1200 dpi laser printers,
looking for reviews of how they did for printing photos. So far I
found only very cursory information of graphics capability of the
various printers. Does anyone here happen to have any experience or
knowlege about any particular brands and models of 1200 dpi black and
white laser printers? If so, are there any you'd recommend to
consider or to avoid? ($300 or so, but I could go higher if it makes
much difference) Again, I'm not expecting to get real photo quality,
but nice-looking, well-defined prints nonetheless.

Susanna