Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 4/21/2004 3:43:31 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com writes:
Brian,
>Thanks for your imput. One question: Can the drivers
>for the 4000 allow black-only printing?

Not having access to one, I can't say, but I am sure our other 
experts know the answer.

Brian Maytum

YES. This prompted me to cue up a test print and try it. I selected Black 
Only, Premium Luster (heresy for a fine art group) and 2880 HighSpeed. The head 
alignment on the 4000 is so good, that you can do hs/bi-directional printing as 
a default without worry about banding. I also did resolution test and the 
native resolution of the printer is a full 360 PPI. So a "checkerboard" of 
alternating black/white pixel values prints perfectly, so there is not advantage to 
running unidirectionally. It took less than 5 minutes and is definitely brown 
tone. Neutral tone comes from printing color with ICM, but don't forget to 
convert to RGB from Grayscale, otherwise you get a green print. All in all, the 
4000 does a good job with B&W right out of the box, but not as good as Quads, 
of course.

Claude Jodoin


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