Digital BW, The Print

Hello Mark,

>Unfortunately the "advanced black and white photo" option remains 
>grayed out with any of the matte paper types selected in the media 
>type window. It only seems to be available for glossy type papers.
>I am using the matte black ink cartridge, the epson 9800 driver and 
>the status monitor that has picked up that I have installed the
>matte black ink. The status monitor has updated the media list to 
>only include only matte papers and still the Adv. B&W option is not 
>available. I downloaded the Epson driver software to the R2400 and
>it behaves in the same way  graying out the adv B&W option the 
>moment I select a matte based paper. 

My 2400 has another pick list under the paper type.  For example with
"Enhanced Matte" paper selected it contains "Photo" and "Best Photo".
 Only with the latter selected does ABW activate.  This list can be
different with different papers.  Does the 9800 have that?

My web site has an article outlining my 2400 workflow and it details
all these settings.  I don't know how much of it will apply to the
9800 but it might be worth a look (article #9 at the link below).

Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm