Digital BW, The Print

I think you will find that with the MK cartridge installed, selecting Black
instead of colour in the Ink setting will achieve a "Black Only workflow"
and that only the MK cartridge is used.  (NCA is not relevant to this
discussion.) This is not the case with the PK cartridge, contrary to the
behaviour of the 2200 driver which will again only use the PK cartridge when
Black is selected.

However, getting back to the point at hand, I just retested my OS-X 2100
driver - I have an MIS CFS installed with an MK chip for the black slot
(with Eboni ink).  I can select 2880dpi for Archival Matt paper.  I am not
sure whether this is because of the MIS chip but would be surprised if that
were the case.  I am using the latest driver from Epson UK's Tech Support
page.


> From: johnglodge <john.lodge@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:10:02 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Epson 2100 - EAM at 2880dpi?
> 
> Well actually you will not get black with black only; there is a
> colour caste in the blacks.
> 
> Black as printed in NCA is printed in 3 parts
> --the darkest by black
> --mid by light black
> --the highlights by CYM
> 
> all have different hues.
> 
> The grey line R=G=B is not grey and the actual grey trajectory
> twists around the grey line.
> 
> I understand it is much better with the 4000.
> 
> This makes good black really hard and makes colour not that easy
> either.
> 
> What looks like metamerism is actually slighly off colours that are
> accentuated in different light.
> 
> QTR does a really good job of black and white and does so by using
> colours with the blacks if you read the profile documentation
> carefully.
> 
> Or in other words the sloppyness goes far beyond what you imagine.
> 
> If you want to see more, internet search on "color warbles" to find
> for an interesting article by Bill Atkinson.
>