Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com,
"Steven Karafyllakis" <steve@s...wrote: Nick;

> ... you will get color shift at some point in
> the future.

Yes. Nothing beats pure carbon for b/w. What I'm
waiting for is QTR support for this printer so I can
try out black-only on it.

> > Is the printer driver printing black-only
> > implicitly?

> Not a chance! If you hava a 10x loupe handy, take a
> look at one of your B&W prints, you'll see color ink
> dots, guarranteed. While you're at it, look for
> traces of banding & get back to me on that, please? I
> have it in my mind to go back and try the demo unit,
> it would be encouraging to have another report of
> perfect banding free prints.

I think you're right. Bob Frost has confirmed this,
too, that color inks are indeed used from 15/15/15
through 255/255/255 in the R800. I suspect the same
thing is true for R1800.

But banding ... no, absolutely no banding, and not
even dots under a loupe. Bob said he even had
trouble finding them using a microscope  :)  This
saved me a trip to a local Adolph Gasser camera
store to use one of their magnifiers.

But as I wrote earlier I did have some trouble with
the cyan nozzles until I used the new Auto Head
Cleaning procedure. This was reported by another
user and Epson Tech said they had no idea why.
Missing cyan nozzles would definitely give banding.

> Enjoy, & I'll keep you posted on which way I go with
> this. I hope by tomorrow to be eating my (negative)
> words, that would make me very happy.

I hope so, too. Are you getting your printer from
CompUSA again? A local Calumet store happened to have
several in stock so I picked up mine from there.

--nick