Digital BW, The Print

All the early reviews of this printer that I have seen have
consistently stated that the 9180 delivers exceptional B&W prints
superior to those from the Epson.  That you don't need to make a bunch
of adjustments seems to me to be a plus.

One other thing, the 9180 uses three inks for black and white; a photo
black, a matte black and a light gray.  This printer is just now
shipping so we should start seeing some first hand reports.  From
early reports though this is the printer to beat when it comes to B&W.

Neil Snape has extensive experience with this printer and has posted a
review at his site.  He frequents the printing forum at dpreview and
promptly answers most queries about this printer.  His review can be
found here:

http://www.neilsnape.com/HP9180_review.htm

-Gary

On 9/13/06, CDTobie@... <CDTobie@...> wrote:
> For Black and White? Reichman is amazing lenient on that point, noting that
> the B9180 produces "nice" b&w but with no controls or adjustments. He also
> doesn't comment on whether this printer's one gray ink is used to blend light
> grays, or whether they are built from Light Cyan, Light Magenta, and Yellow (which
> would push this printer back a generation in b&w technology). Either way, the
> idea that prints are "nice and neutral" from an uncontrolled b&w mode is
> pretty unreasonable. I can find two virtually identical papers that print
> significantly warmer and cooler than one another.   If one is neutral via a blind b&w
> mode, the other will be about 5 a*/b* points warm or cool, depending on which
> one is neutral (though I don't really expect either to be truely neutral).

-- 
-Gary