Digital BW, The Print

This may be well-known, but from looking around, I don't think it is:
just the other day I discovered that I can force my Canon printers
(6600D and 9000)to use only black ink by sending them greyscale files
(not desaturated RGB) and selecting "transparency" as the paper!

It's taking a little curve fiddling, but I can already see that the
results on Hahnemuhle pearl rag are coming out much more nicely than
what I used to get with my first-generation Piezography + Epson 1160
system a few years ago--very neutral, with a lot of presence--in spite
of being with only one ink. It may not be for the faint of heart, but
I think once I get it zeroed in I'm going to like the look.

--Michael



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, run4alife@... wrote:
>
> this may sound dumb and as a teacher of social studies I always say
there  is 
> no such thing as a dumb question so hear it goes.......
> I have been trying to print black and white pictures for a while
now. i  have 
> a Canon photo printer but it mixes color even when you want just
black and  
> white.
> So i have been lurking here a while and reading that a Epson printer
is  most 
> likely the best way to go...so i bought one yesterday a Epson stylus
Photo  
> R280. Same problem...prints don't come out black and white...any 
suggestions?
> i tried grayscale with a photo setting for the paper still not black
and  
> white!
> any help would be appreciated
> Debbie
> 
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