Digital BW, The Print

They can, Kodak makes a special black and white RC paper for Lightjets. 
There is a company in Germany who is suppose to have a Lightjet they 
modified to take black and white fiber based materials.
Mark

On Jul 26, 2004, at 8:42 AM, Steve Kale wrote:

> Can someone please explain to me (I have no traditional darkroom 
> background)
>  what the issues are with using a colour process for B&W re a Lightjet.
>  People have mentioned that it must print to colour paper.� Why is 
> there such
>  a difference between colour and B&W paper and if we are simply 
> talking about
>  exposing light sensitive paper with a laser then why can't these 
> machines
>  expose B&W paper?
>
>  > From: Mark Savoia <mark@...>
>  > Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
>  > Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:46:13 -0400
>  > To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
>  > Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Fuji Pictography B&W green tint?!
>  >
>  > No, it is called "not calibrated". If the printer is not self
>  > calibrated every day (not just when changing donor) it will be off
>  > color. There is always a very slight color cast no matter what you 
> do,
>  > after all it is a color process on a color material. I should know, 
> I
>  > own a printer. I wish Fuji would make a black only donor (similar to
>  > what Kodak did for their dye-sub printers years ago).
>  > Mark
>  >
>
>
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