Digital BW, The Print

Carl-

I've examined several ABW (not "BO") prints under a 7-35X Nikon zoom 
microscope and I've never seen anything like the amount of color in 
your scan.  What I've seen is perhaps 10% of that amount of color and 
that little bit only in the extreme, very thin highlights.  What you 
show there is completely unlike anything I've seen from this printer 
in ABW.  Perhaps the ABW actually uses less color than the "black" 
mode or perhaps these prints are all over the board.  It is amazing 
how obtuse Epson is about communicating about these products.

Walt




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Carl Schofield 
<scho@m...> 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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