Digital BW, The Print

Maybe I was not clear, the B9180 uses all three, both blacks and light
gray ONLY for its B&W prints.


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"> Are you saying the photo black is used along with the matte black
> and gray cartridges when doing B&W on matte papers, as there is no
> light light black as there is in the Epson K3 printers?
>
> I'd assumed that the photo black was used only for the glossy
> family of papers ... .
>

Correct , all three are used on Greyscale printing on all Fine Art
media. You can also use all inks if the radio button , "print with
composite" is left checked.
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Neil Snape photographer Paris http://www.neilsnape.com
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On 9/13/06, CDTobie@... <CDTobie@...> wrote:
> >
> I find black-ink-only, or black-and-gray-inks-only to not be enough: the
> tonality is uncontrolled and varies with each media. I find color modes that mix
> light grays from cmY inks not acceptable for B&W either. And printers that
> don't offer reasonable life expectancies on matte/art media are less than
> desirable as well. So, to date, the only printers to get all the right elements for
> good B&W from an OEM color inkset, are the Epson K3s, and the Canon iPF5000. HP
> certainly had developed (as noted) multi-gray technology for previous desktop
> dye ink printers (whether it was an affordable way to print B&W images was
> another matter), but they appear to have stepped back from that with this
> generation of pigment printers.
>
> C. David Tobie
> Product Technology Manager
> ColorVision Business Unit
> Datacolor Inc.
> CDTobie@...
> www.colorvision.com



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-Gary