Digital BW, The Print

With the droplet size achievable with the R800 and R1800 the light grey
doesn't add much.  Epson no doubt recognised this when they dropped it in
favour of a greater colour gamut achievable with the Red and Blue inks.  I
am sure that a quad setup would be better than black only but the greatest
strength of black only as a workflow is it's simplicity - good B&W from an
existing ink set. 

Re 2200 vs quad, I must say that the prints that I have done with a
dedicated B&W ink set have blown away what I had previously achieved using
QTR and the UC ink set.


> From: Mr_Misty_44 <jharvey@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:11:23 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] re:Epson R800 & 1800
> 
> 
> 
> I guess my point was that the 2200 seems to be the best candidate for
> B&W with Ultracrome inks. Even if BO printing were allowed with
> either the 800 or 1800 don't we still need the light gray. I would
> like to think that the Ultracrome B&W prints made on the 2200, 4000,
> 7600, 9600, etc. Would be hard to tell from those made with a
> dedicated Quad tone ink setup, or at least, from a setup which
> contails sepia and blue toner. Is one More archival than another. Is
> one tonely superior or would it be hard to tell.
> 
> John H
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