Digital BW, The Print

Hello Jack,

>My experience is that the ABW mode in every
>case produces results with color toning. To avoid this I printed
>with my European driver setting "GraySteps". The results are pretty
>good and really neutral without any tone or hue!
>Is in this case the printer using K, LK and LLK in the way of BO with
>three Blacks? Or does it use only Black K?

The 3 K's alone produce a sort of yellowish greenish turkey vomit
color, so if you're getting truly nice neutral tone then I suspect
there's some colors in there somewhere.  Do you have a 6x or stronger
loupe?  With that you can see what colors are being used.

It is possible with careful experimenting in ABW mode to find settings
for each paper that look photographically convincing and don't look
colorized.  But if you're happy with the graysteps mode then just
stick with that, whatever it is.  

Regards,
Clayton


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