Digital BW, The Print

Carl,
I take it that to reduce the warm tone of UT matte black, one should 
still use Eboni black ink?  Have you done any comparisons with custom 
printer profiled B&W ...? 
Thanks in advance,
Steve B 


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Carl Schofield 
<scho@m...> wrote:
> 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