Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Colin & Linda
McKie <colinmckie@x> wrote:
> Hi Ferdinand,
> 
> We have done BO printing on a 2100. It works OK, density is good, 
> but it has metamerism, as the 2100 driver (for Windows, v5.30 at 
> least) doesn't actually do black only at photographic quality 
> levels. It does a full colour greyscale on anything but plain 
> paper, so no advantage there. The answer is to install the 2200 
> driver (v5.40), which does allow proper
> photo BO on the 2100. It will warn you about poor quality when you
> try to print BO at photo settings, but will carry on when you cancel
> the warning. We haven't been able to get the Status Monitor to work
> with the 2100 on 2200 driver, but the prints are fine, following
> Clayton's settings. They are warmer than the screen view, but
> densities are pretty right.
> 
> Your problems are not inherent in doing BO on a 2100, so some
> detail somewhere must be going wrong. Good luck with fixing it!
 
 Colin

I've no doubt that the 2100 hardware could do BO.  After all it's
physically the same printer as the 2200.  The issue is the driver.

I'm not sure I fully understand what happened when you tried to print
BO when using the 2100 5.30 drivers.  Are you saying that it refused
to allow you to set the driver to SuperPhoto 2880 and the Black option
at the same time?  Were you able to print with these settings?  

I certainly can, but get the ridiculously light prints referred to
earlier.  I only get a "full colour grayscale" is I choose the colour
option in the driver, rather than black.

F_P