Digital BW, The Print

Richard Smallfield schreef:
> Hi,
> in the shower this morning, it occurred to me: why doesn't Epson use low-gamut pigments, as manufacturers like Cone do, to make the K/LK/LLK inks neutral - so that when printing BW, we are not balancing the warm carbon pigment with the less stable high-gamut coloured pigments that their coloured inks use? The high gamut pigments would then only be needed in BW printing, for toned prints, or balancing the tone on differently toned papers. 
> 
> I can't see what downside there would be in producing perfectly neutral black ink, with neutral dilutions. I can't imagine what downside this would have for colour printing, either.
> 
> Any thoughts anyone?
> 
> Richard
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HP Z models + the B9180 etc desktop printers have a neutral grey ink 
range that has a high resistance to fading. Paul Roark has used some of 
the Vivera inks, diluted and straight, in Epson models and there are no 
clogs as I understand it.  But only with QTR you will be able to change 
the media presets, not with the Epson driver. The Epson driver will 
control what will be composite grey and what mixed of grey inks, both in 
ABW and color mode.


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