Digital BW, The Print

Paul,

I see, because ink smoothness impacts image quality so little you wanted to show that it's no worse than film grain. It sounds about right, with only difference that film grain becomes bigger with enlargement, ink roughness becomes less visible with bigger size of prints, physically it's still the same size but it's less visible because viewing distance bigger for bigger prints.

So BO with 1 ink which is less warm and more luminous is fine.

Now tell me please somebody - when couple of weeks ago I was asking if dedicated b&w printer will give better image quality, I was told by many people "Yes!" and now I'm confused - why 3 black inks (K3) in my Epson 7900 were suggested to give worse image quality than 6 Eboni inks when we see that even 1 ink used in BO only mode gives comparable  with 6 inks quality?

Actually I like to play with this stuff and I know why - all these inks, bottles - I feel like in old good times - I can play with chemicals again.
Just don't tell me about better image quality, I'm still trying to make print on dedicated printer with MIS inks which will have the same quality as print from 7900, may be some day...

Jacob Mann
http://www.photo3dart.com