Digital BW, The Print

Printing B&W is only expensive if you're seeking absolute perfection.
However, you can get good results with what you've got. Printing in black
only mode works fine, with the limitation that the result has a slight warm
cast and is a bit grainier than using color inks. Printing B&W in color mode
works reasonably well if you use the latest profiles downloadable from
Epson's web site, although the grayscale isn't absolutely neutral at all
levels, and does exhibit a little metamerism under different lighting.

There is a lot of good info in the archives of this group, although there's
a lot of noise to wade through as well. Probably the most important thing to
investigate initially is the many ways of converting color to B&W. How you
do that will have more effect on your final output than the techniques or
tools you use to do the actual printing.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
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