Digital BW, The Print

Hi Ferdinand,

I just did a quick experiment, printing an A5 greyscale test pattern on 
each end of an A4 sheet. They were both at 1440 dpi on Ilford Smooth 
Pearl, paper set to Premium Semigloss; for the first one I set the 2100 
driver to Black mode, the other to Colour and Automatic with no 
adjustments. The results are identical, including metamerism. Neither 
looks anything like the result from using Black mode on the 2200 driver, 
which is warm but has no significant metamerism.

I don't know where the changeover occurs, it's somewhere between plain 
paper at 360dpi and any photo paper at 720dpi or more, but although the 
driver gives you the Black only controls and tells you nothing, it 
prints with all inks.

How this relates to your results, I have no idea. What version is your 
driver? I am using 5.3cE from Epson Australia on Win 2000.

Colin

ferdinand_paris wrote:

> 
> 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