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Re: [Digital BW] Epson 4800... Black-Only Lives! (???)

2005-07-04 by bradspix

What Steve said. I'm getting great (and dead neutral) results using
Epson's Advance B&W 
mode, from pix already converted to B&W in ps. Couldn't be happier.

Brad
Urban pix: www.citysnaps.net



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale
<stevekale@b...> 
wrote:
> No you don't need BO to fight the green battle. The 4800 is a
massive
> improvement on the 2200 out-of-the-box.
> 
> 
> > From: Stephen M Martin <steve@s...>
> > Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 18:07:34 -0400
> > To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Epson 4800... Black-Only Lives! (???)
> > 
> > I fought the green battle with my 2200 when I first got it. I
eventually got
> > it straight. Is the 4800 going to be the same war all over again?
That was a
> > huge pain and resulted in a lot of waste.
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: Steve Kale
> >   To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> >   Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 4:41 AM
> >   Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Epson 4800... Black-Only Lives! (???)
> > 
> > 
> >   John
> > 
> >   According to Epson, as noted in previous posts, it uses all
three blacks and
> >   potentially some colour ink when "black" is selected for any
paper other
> >   than "plain paper".  So you are looking at a greyscale with at
least 3Ks
> >   which is why it is so smooth.
> > 
> >   Steve

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