Digital BW, The Print

on 10/27/01 6:01 AM, hposner1@... wrote:

> Made me wonder why I was investing all this time and effort.
> (Ron Harris seems to get gorgeous prints with just the Epson black
> cartridge.) 
> http://home.att.net/~rwharris/


Forgive me but I think you may have read Ron Harris wrong. Below I excerpted
a snippet from this page:

http://home.att.net/~rwharris/page2.html

He seems to be saying to use all 6 colors, NOT black only:

"You may be surprised to learn that superior black-and-white prints result
from printing black-and-white as "color" images.  If "monochrome" is chosen
in the printer driver, only the black ink cartridge gets used.  Shades of
gray are achieved by spacing the black dots printed on the paper, resulting
in much empty space in the printed image.  If "color" is chosen, all six
inks are used, essentially filling the print with colored dots.  These
overlapping does generate the subtle shades of gray necessary for a fine
print, and generate more detail in the image".

Also, I would never expect that images on a website are scans of prints. I'd
assume the images you see on Ron's site are from digital files, but of
course I could very well be wrong.

Good luck, I hope you get your system working well.

Todd