Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale 
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
> Your "best bet" is to make yourself heard at Epson.  I have no 
doubt that
> without substantial feedback black only will not be available on 
any future
> Epson printer with more than one shade of K...


Maybe I missed something in the discussion but near as I can tell 
from QTR for the 2200 it is very easily to set up a simple black-
only curve with no light gray ink and no toning. Just go to curve 
creation and set black to "gray ink" at 100% and set everything else 
to "not used" save that as "BO" and call it up as the curve.  Seemed 
pretty simple to me.  Even when I didn't linearize the printer it 
printed a pretty fair gray ramp with only the one ink.   Surely that 
will be available on future QTR versions for the 4800 et. al.  So 
while it does seem strange to me that Epson would can the BO mode in 
its drivers I don't see why this would be all that huge an issue for 
us special purpose users.  Why wouldn't one just use QTR for BO 
mode?  Cheap enough.  

I suspect there are not enough BO users in the entire world to make 
any statistically significant difference in Epson sales no matter 
how much fuss they make. 

Dan