Digital BW, The Print

I would echo what Clayton is saying here.  One thing you might want to do
relatively immediately is to change from Epson MK ink to MIS Eboni.  It
performs much better than Epson MK on the heavier matte papers.  I would say
the two key areas for development in the near future for B&W printing will
be ICC colour management and a new MK ink as Clayton suggests.  The former
is coming along with the work of Roy Harrington.  I agree with him when he
says that this is the missing link in Epson's latest solution.  As to the
second, I do think we will see potentially vast improvements within a year.


> From: Clayton Jones <cj@...>

> I think everyone agrees that the K3 printers are an important
> milestone in the industry.  We finally have an excellent
> out-of-the-box BW solution. We also have long lasting pigments with
> good color gamut, and good dmax on glossy papers.   Now that these
> milestones have been reached, further advances in these areas will
> likely be more incremental.  It is my personal feeling that the next
> really big breakthrough will be in matte paper dmax.