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RE: [Digital BW] RGB for Black and white with 2200?

2005-03-07 by Paul D. DeRocco

> From: Mark Rabiner [mailto:mark@...]
>
> RGB for Black and white with 2200?

Using the Epson driver, Black Only mode uses black ink only, not gray.
Turning that off uses all seven inks. The problems with the former are
grain, due to the large dot spacing needed to get light tones, and the
somewhat warm cast of the black ink on most papers. The problems with the
latter are metamerism, and the impossibility of getting a perfectly neutral
grayscale across the full range.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...

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