Digital BW, The Print

No, by "at the same time," I meant that the 4000 can have both matte and 
photo black installed at the same time and switch between them via software, 
rather than, as in the 2200, requiring you to physically remove one and insert 
the other.  In other words, the 4000 has 8 inks installed at the same time: 
photo black, matte black, light  black, yellow, cyan, magenta, light cyan and 
light magenta.  It does not "use" the photo black and matte black at the same 
time -- for any given print, you can use one or the other, not both.  You just 
don't have to swap them out and waste ink doing so.  Nor would I imagine that 
any new printer would actually use both photo and matte black in producing a 
print.


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Diane Fields" <
picnic@c...> wrote:
> I'm curious if the 4000 uses both photo black and matte black 'at the same 
time'--or if you would think any new printer would use them at the same time?  
If not, I suppose then one could still say its an 8 ink printer--its sort of how you 
look at it.  I'm still interested though I sort of lean towards a 4000 since I 
occasionally like to print larger and it would be nice not to have to 'switch' the 
blacks as in my 2200.  However, my 2200 may keep clicking on for a good 
while and I won't replace it until it dies.
> 
> Diane 
>   Also, if the new printers can use both Photo and Matte black at the same 
time 
>   (without swapping them), these would be 9 ink printers, not 8 inks.
> 
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