Digital BW, The Print

Wow...what timing. Carl answers my question the exact same time I sent 
it off to epson tech support. Now I wonder why the "black" mode is even 
there...Doug M
On Aug 6, 2005, at 4:56 PM, Carl Schofield wrote:

> Here is a 100% section of a 2400 "Black" print scanned at 2400 dpi.  
>  Print was made on Ilford Smooth Pearl using latest Mac driver with 
>  driver set for black ink.  Looks like it uses all of the color inks, 
>  particularly in the highlights.  Print looks neutral and exhibits no 
>  metamerism, despite the obvious presence of yellow ink.
>
> http://homepage.mac.com/scho/2400K.jpg
>
>  On Aug 6, 2005, at 7:34 PM, Douglas meeuwsen wrote:
>
>  > I guess some people get really addicted to those dots......I am 
>  > looking
>  > at my print using "black" and on premium semigloss, it definitley 
>  > has a
>  > less greenish tint than the ABW neutral setting. Keep in mind that 
> the
>  > ABW neutral setting only has the faintest hint of greenish tint, and
>  > that is only under certain kinds of window light. I will bet that 
> some
>  > people would say that the print is warm. My idea of neutral is some
>  > people's idea of warm. I have only had time to make one print so 
> far,
>  > so everything may change, but I like it better that ABW neutral. My
>  > favorite setting for ABW is +4 vert/+4Horiz  with the shadow slider 
> at
>  > -10 and the highlight slider at +5, just to give an indication of 
> what
>  > I like. I also have a nice setting that looks like lenswork. that is
>  > +15/+15 and -15/+10  for the sliders........
>  > On Aug 6, 2005, at 3:53 PM, Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  >>> From: bwbonkers
>  >>>
>  >>> This Black mode on the R2400 is NO Black Only mode. As far as I 
> can
>  >>>
>  >> see
>  >>
>  >>> the R2400 does not allow for BO printing using the Epson driver. 
> The
>  >>> Black mode uses more than just one black ink. Pity.
>  >>>
>  >>
>  >>  Why is that a pity?
>  -
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