Digital BW, The Print

I very much like Sandy Cornelius' description of the "Black Only" printing on EPG as 
looking like a celebrity head shot.  That's a very accurate description.  On Enhanced 
Matte it looks somewhat like a sepia toned older print.

I mentioned in an earlier post that the first dozen or so prints I made were made with 
grayscale images, using the supplied Epson profiles, in Color mode.  The next dozen 
or so were made in Black mode.  After checking the ink use this morning, I find that 
the only cartridges showing any depletion are the Gloss, Magenta and Cyan 
cartridges.

A couple of other notes:  a poster on the Epson R800 forum at photo-i.co.uk has 
written that his ink use display, on the black catridges suddenly went from none used 
to quite a bit used.

And, Carl Schofield sent a link to a new R800 driver this morning.  I find that it adds 
capabilities for different types of paper use but doesn't change the Black mode to one 
that uses only Black ink.

And, the ink that gets the most use when printing glossy, in my case, is the Gloss 
Optimizer.  This is because I tend to have from a 1/2 to 1" white border or more on 
glossy prints.  The Optimizer is laid down wherever there is blank paper.

On the whole, I like this printer quite a bit and look forward to driver updates and a 
wider format version.... :-)

Ed