Digital BW, The Print

> In my 5.30 version of the XP 2100 driver, I remain convinced that in
> BO moded my version of the driver is taking the grayscale image, doing
> a CYMK separation, and only printing the black channel.  It definitely
> is printing only black ink, the print is a very close match to the
> black channel if I do my own separation, and anything I do to try to
> darken the print along the lines of Clayton's suggestions does nothing
> to the light-toned areas, where the black channel does very little of
> the work.

I'm using v5.3 of the XP driver with a 2100. I printed your sample image 
from Photoshop CS using the BO settings specified in Clayton's article. 
The picture looked almost exactly as on screen. There may have been 
differences, but they were very subtle. No major shifts like you seem to 
experience.

My screen is calibrated with a Spyder, so what I'm seeing on screen 
should be reasonably close to the actual image.

I have no problems selecting 2880dpi and printing BO with the matte 
black cartridge on matte papers.

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Daniel Staver
http://daniel.staver.no