Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 3/5/07 7:52:04 PM, dazedgonebye@... writes:


> I'm reading/posting on the piezography board.  I'll check out the
> quadtone now.
> 
> If it helps any, i've about decided on a refurbished R1800
> 

Starting by reading the Piezography and QuadTone boards, and purchasing an 
R1800 is about like starting your search for a car by checking with local 
greasemonkeys about what cars they like to rebuild, and buying a car without an 
engine in it: you've pretty well determined that you're going to be getting under 
the hood and building your own system (there's really no way to print good B&W 
with an R1800 without all of that). If you purchased a printer that can do 
good B&W with the OEM inks, (by having at least two shades of gray) and that 
supports using these grays for printing neutral components (as drivers of such 
printers do), then you'd have a wide range of options (including being able to 
print B&W, tinted B&W, and color from the same printer), many of which would 
not require building a custom combination of third party inks, third party RIPs, 
and special channel curves. So go there if playing around under the hood is 
what you want to do, but be aware that you are heading in a direction that will 
require that. Lots of great black and white prints are being produced these 
days without going that route, and without getting ink under your 
fingernails...

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Unit
Datacolor Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com


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