Digital BW, The Print

Epson has done just that in their 11880. The black inks are no longer
brown. This has a friend of mine jumping for joy with his.

This will certainly trickle down to Epson's other machines this fall.
Hp's Z3100 black channels similarly are neutral. This is a new acrylic
encapsulated formulaton also with better dmax than Epson because it
also combines their photo black if needed. What they have in the mix I
don't think anyone knows. Saying they have "dye" in the black is a
chemical over simplificatioin these days. At any rate the Vivera
Wilhelm permenence is rated at >275 years in daylight under glass
without additonal uv coating.

Don't know how the 11880 is going to rate becaue the numbers aren't up
yet. The 9880 used the original blacks from everything I've heard?

John





--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Greg"
<dfaprinting@...> wrote:
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "pr_roark"  not > 
> > The "problem" with them from my perspective is that they are also 
> very 
> > warm.  
> 
> I think it is time to look into different forms of the carbon matrix. 
> There most be a form of pure carbon that does not have the too warm 
> coloration. We've joked about this in the past, but it may very well 
> prove to be the solution. The Nanotubes is an interesting idea that I 
> still need to research, but I'm not sure if they are able to produce 
> the quantity needed for an ink pigment in mass scale. Buckey Balls 
> still seems like a good idea to me, but until they can be made in 
> enough quantity and tried we may never know.
>