Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones"
<cj@...> wrote:
>
> 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
> 
> 
> Info on black and white digital printing at    
> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
>


Hi to all,

just now I received a statement of an Epson employee:
The German printer driver for the R2400 offers printing in the
"Grayscale-Mode" with the three Blacks K, LK and LLK,
so its real BO with three K-Inks without tone or hue.

Thanks for help, especially to
Clayton for his most valuable advice in BO printing!
Jack