Digital BW, The Print

Let's go back to the Shutter Bug article again (as quoted):

" They will have a new 8 color pigment ink set, including photo or matte
black, light black, light light black, plus cyan, magenta, yellow, light
cyan and light magenta."

So it sounds to me like matte black or photo black, ie you have to swap
them, plus the 7 other listed inks. So if this is right we get a 2400, 4800,
7800 and 9800 with better B&W ability.  Of course if the driver sucks then
there is no real advantage except you have 8 simultaneously active inks
which will give a RIP more to play with.

I'm more interested in whether the K3 inks have improved fundamentally over
the current UC inks or whether, as I suspect, K3 merely refers to the 3
shades of K.  In that case perhaps we still have the whole bronzing issue...


> From: chipcarterdc <chipcarterdc@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:07:08 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Ultrachrome K3 inks?
> 
> 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.
>