Datacolor User to User Support Group.

I print mostly in color but I'd like to print B&W as well, this is the
reason I'd like getting the 3800. I already own PFP and using it with
satisfaction to create profiles for the R1800 I currently own. In my
understand the R3800 has a build-in ABW feature specifically designed
for Black and White printing. Will PFP be compatible with this
feature? Or should I keep printing in standard color mode?

Does it mean that printing in color mode the printer will be using all
the colored inks? Or just the blak and grey ones? 

--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, CDTobie@... wrote:
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> In a message dated 4/6/07 4:52:28 AM, michele@... writes:
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> > I print mostly in color but I'd like to print B&W as well, this is the
> > reason I'd like getting the 3800. I already own PFP and using it with
> > satisfaction to create profiles for the R1800 I currently own. In my
> > understand the R3800 has a build-in ABW feature specifically designed
> > for Black and White printing. Will PFP be compatible with this
> > feature? Or should I keep printing in standard color mode?
> > 
> 
> The B&W printing capabilities of PFP2 on the 3800, and other two-gray 
> printers, is based on printing in Color mode, not AWB mode. You
build an extended 
> profile (incorporating the 238 patch extended grays target), then
print grayscale 
> or neutralized RGB images to it for neutral B&W. For tinted B&W you
do the 
> same, with tinted RGB images, or build tints and crosstints into a
special 

> version of the profile to tint neutral RGB or grayscale images.
> 
> C. David Tobie
> Product Technology Manager
> ColorVision Business Unit
> Datacolor Inc.
> CDTobie@...
> www.colorvision.com
> 
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>Does it mean that printing in color mode the printer will be using all
>the colored inks? Or just the blak and grey ones?
>

This ends up being determined by the printer driver, but yes: since you're
printing in RGB mode, not Advanced B&W mode, you will be getting some colored
inks mixed in with the black and gray.

-- 
David Miller
Senior Software Developer, Digital Color Solutions
ColorVision