Digital BW, The Print

Hi Paul

Thank you for this trick. I have complained in previous posts that 
even though the BW prints using ABW mode and full colour ink set are 
very good, I always felt that I could see a little colour spoiling 
the neutrality of the print. I have just finished printing my first 
prints with EZW-4Y ink in the yellow cart and the results are 
fantastic. As soon as I printed a 100 greyscale file using the 
standard settings the difference was very obvious compared to the 
full colour ink set. With the full colour ink set I could see a very 
slight yellow/green hue but getting rid of the yellow ink has 
produced a very neutral greyscale.

I finally settled on H+05, V-05, best photo and paper set to premium 
glossy paper. Premium glossy gave a very slightly better Dmax than 
premium semi-glossy paper using Hahnemuhle FineArt Pearl. Dmax I get 
is 2.212 I'm using Roy's ICC program to profile paper/ink combo.

This is only my humble observations being a keen amateur. I am still 
learning but the prints on Hahemuhle paper are the best I have 
managed to achieve to date. I really like this paper. 

When using this trick do you print solely using the Epson ABW mode or 
is there any other approach you have found to tweak the results. I do 
have Roy's QTR and Bowhaus RIP both licenced but I'm getting very 
lazy, Epsons ABW mode is so easy to use.

Many thanks

Peter.