Digital BW, The Print

Like a lot of folks, I started years ago printing BO. Inspired by
Clayton's prints, I made some BO prints of recent images on my C86
with MIS UT-FSN. The 5x7 and 6x8 images on matte paper were awfully
nice and matched my quadtone prints in tonality, with a slight
graininess perceptable at close viewing distances. I still like my
quad- and hextone prints better, but the BO prints are respectable.
BO printing can definitely work well with some image content.
That said, I agree with Paul: if you aren't going to print BO, don't
worry about it :-)

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@...m, "Paul Roark"
<paul.roark@...> wrote:
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> Don't worry about the bad BO results.  That's typical for the
inexpensive
> printers.  It'll probably be fine with all the gray inks installed.
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> Paul
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> From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> marcinemem
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 5:42 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] C88 - dissapointment at the beginning - is it
normal?
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> Hello Everybody!
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> I have just received my Epson C88+ printer (D88+ in Europe). Because I 
> am still waiting for package from MIS (with UT-EZ inkset) I tested BO 
> printing with Epson black ink and Epson Photo Semigloss paper. What a 
> dissapointment! Even if blacks don't look as bad as I expected all the 
> rest is a way below my expectations. Very visible banding, greys don't 
> look I would like them to look like... I used picture in greyscale, 360 
> dpi but format was very small - 8x4 (15x10cm). OK, that was my really 
> really first attempt to BO printing - ink is not right, same paper 
> but... should the result look like that? I also tried full color 
> picture and result, maybe except dark shadows and blacks in general, is 
> quite right.
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> Marcin
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