Digital BW, The Print

Clayton,

I've also been doing some BO printing with the 4000 and agree with 
Steve's conclusions concerning print quality - very nice.  I don't see 
any dither banding in my prints and they look very similar to 2200 BO 
prints.  You can't print at 2880 dpi on matte papers with the 4000 
because when any matte paper media type is selected then only 1440 dpi 
is available as the highest print resolution (You also can't trick the 
driver into using 2880 by selecting an RC media type because it will 
then use the PK ink) .  However, I don't think this limits print 
quality at all on matte papers.  As I noted I couldn't see any 
qualitative difference between 2200 prints on EEM printed at 2880 dpi 
and 4000 prints on EEM at 1440 dpi when viewed with the naked eye.  The 
smallest dot size available on the 4000 is supposed to be 3.5 pl, but I 
don't know if that dot size is used when printing on matte papers at 
1440 dpi.  Roy may have more info on what the dot size distributions 
are for the 4000.  I did make a few high resolution scans of a small 
section from matched 4000 and 2200 prints on EEM and can see that the 
dots are more tightly packed in the 4000 print and also the dither 
pattern appears slightly different.  I've sent you some scans off list 
for evaluation.

Carl