Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Greg"
<dfaprinting@...> wrote:

snip...
> This really comes into play when you are printing color and may have
> considerable amounts of any two colors, plus considerable amount of
> two black inks. The current Epson inks peak in density (on paper)
> around the following (from a post by another member here about 3-4
> months ago):
> black - 100% (of course)
> medium black - around 75%
> light black - around 50%
> 
> So you still have a long space that the light black needs to cover...

which, along with David Tobie's post, brings up an  interesting point.
Epsons lk inks were designed primarily to improve performance for
color printing- they can do a longer GCR which helps a number of
persistant problems.
That it improves B&W printing and allowed them to put an IP style ABW
mode in the driver was no doubt icing on the cake.
But those densities are clearly a bit less than ideal if considered
for B&W performance alone. Certainly better than 2 ks though.
Tyler