Digital BW, The Print

I have been trying to find out if there is any way to get decent B&W
prints using a Canon i9900 printer.  Is there a way to print Black
Only?  Grayscale with color?  I am not very savvy on this brand but
have recently read some good things about these printers.... of
course, we all have our own little niche to deal with in B&W.

Thanks for any comments...

Don in Broken Arrow

I tried for the longest time to get decent B&W out of Canon inks with an 
S9000, with no luck.  I finally got prints that looked OK out of the 
printer, but 6 months later some of them had started to turn purple in 
various places.  They had been stored stacked (pressed) together in bound 
books, so I can't blame the atmosphere.  I finally gave up and dedicated 
the printer to Lyson Quads, and got a second printer (S900) for color 
work.  I think the 9900 uses the same inks as the 9000, so I would expect 
the same results.

Cheers,
Kip

At 7/30/2004 12:13 AM +0000, you wrote:

>I have been trying to find out if there is any way to get decent B&W
>prints using a Canon i9900 printer.  Is there a way to print Black
>Only?  Grayscale with color?  I am not very savvy on this brand but
>have recently read some good things about these printers.... of
>course, we all have our own little niche to deal with in B&W.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Kip Babington
<cbabing3@s...> wrote:
> I tried for the longest time to get decent B&W out of Canon inks
with an 
> S9000, with no luck.  I finally got prints that looked OK out of the 
> printer, but 6 months later some of them had started to turn purple in 
> various places.  They had been stored stacked (pressed) together in
bound 
> books, so I can't blame the atmosphere.  I finally gave up and
dedicated 
> the printer to Lyson Quads, and got a second printer (S900) for color 
> work.  I think the 9900 uses the same inks as the 9000, so I would
expect 
> the same results.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kip
Thanks for the reply.  May I ask what your results are with the Lyson
quads?  Longevity? Appearance?

Don