Digital BW, The Print

The UK 2100 driver will do BO on matt paper no problems ie no colour ink is
used (it does not work with the photo black cartridge).


> From: Colin & Linda McKie <colinmckie@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:35:15 +1000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Qu for Clayton Jones about BO
> 
> 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
>