Digital BW, The Print

The HP printers are good machines and dye inks are beginning to close the 
archival gap with pigments. However, HP's ratings are based on staying on the OEM 
path; using their inks with their papers. This relationship can be critical, 
not just with HP, but all inkjet printers.

Clogging isn't always caused by the inks. There can be other issues: paper 
flaking, dust from the environment, hardware flaws. My experience, with HP and 
Epson printers, is that ink related clogging is very marginal when OEM inks are 
used.

I've seen excellent grayscale prints from an HP 130, but the printer was 
linearized and custom profiled.



Bill Kennedy
Associate Professor of Photocommunications
St. Edward's University
512/448-8680


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