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Re: Qu for Clayton Jones about BO

2004-09-18 by john dean

It's an odd thing but I've found my output to be much smoother for BO printing on a 10K 
when I send the file through the driver as a greyscale file. The Epson rep told me to send it 
as an RGB but my results have been contrary. When compared to sending it as an rgb file 
with black ink only setting the results contain much more dithering. 

Lately I've been able to do some remarkably nice BO prints on Somerset Velvet and 
Hahnemuhle William turner. Printing on papers like Enhanced or Legion Matt can sometime 
work but quite often the dithering lines become apparent, or a pepply grain shows itself. It 
is a quick and easy way to do monochrome if you choose a slightly absorbant media. Don't 
try rc papers... When I get a 9600 with QTR I'll abandon this I'm sure. But I've made quite a 
bit of money this way in the last few years.

john

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