Digital BW, The Print

At 03:53 AM 1/22/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>    From: "danielstaver <daniel@...>" <daniel@...>
>Subject: Re: 2100 magenta shift
>
> > What the 2100/2200 needs is a way to use all its blacks,
> > i.e., the dark black AND the light black cartridge, and
> > not any of the colors.  This would produce very neutral
> > prints with minimal metamerism, but a less obvious dot
> > pattern than the darkest cartridge alone.
>
>That's based on the assumption that the light black is actually
>neutral. It's not. Printing with the two blacks will get you a print
>with a very varm brown sepia-tone.


It's true, that was my assumption.  If their light black is
really a light brown then why do they call it light black?

It's amazing how many of us bought this printer
expecting we could use it for archival color AND
black and white printing and are having problems with
it WRT to black and white.   And it wasn't cheap either.