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Re: [Digital BW] Pure black & white or CMYK Black & White?

2006-05-27 by Clayton Jones

Hello Sean,

>Looking around on the internet there are people who say they get 
>better results when printing with an inkjet by using only black ink. 
>I've tried this as opposed to using the CMYK colours of my printer 
>to make up the black & white and find that my photo's seem to have 
>a slight greenish hew.  Has anyone found this and found a reason 
>for it?  This is printing with an Epson Photo R200 printer ...and 
>using Epson original ink.

The K ink in the stock set is a bluish-green in color.  The people who
do Black Only (BO) printing almost universally use Eboni (MIS) with
matte papers.   MIS sells carts for the R200.

Details about BO printing can be found at the link below.

Regards,
Clayton


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

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