Digital BW, The Print

I wonder how many black only users will want to go through the hassle of
learning QTR to simply drive one black ink?  I suspect that a key advantage
for many will be gone - simplicity.  I am sure that there will be some that
will go to the extra trouble to keep the "look" but I doubt most will. I
agree with the statistically insignificant numbers but suspect that their
only hope of having Epson preserve their workflow is by telling Epson and
not just venting here.


> From: Danny Culbertson <danculb@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 01:14:21 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: 2200 says "no ink here" but there is - BO?
> 
> --- 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