Digital BW, The Print

>> I have the opportunity to buy a used 9600 printer cheap.
>>...
>> What are the options for 3rd party pigment inks, etc. for 
>> doing black and white?


To follow up on my earlier response on this as well as the tentative good
news about the stability of my non-blended ink 7500 approach, here are some
of the next steps I'll be taking that might be of interest.

If color profiles can handle twisted spaces, a hextone with carbon in the
magenta channel and LM in the yellow position, as well as C & LC colors
(perhaps a diluted LLC and LC for more smoothness) might give us a color
managed B&W approach.

With a rip, a hextone or better can have both color and B&W.  With modern
printers K, LK, LLK, LC, LM, and Y should work fine.  This should give me
all the gamut I need in color as well as excellent, stable B&W.  I will
explore the profiling options with such a setup.  I'll try both of the above
on the 220 first, as time permits.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com