Re:Black and white printing
Re:Black and white printing
- Subject: Re:Black and white printing
- From: Larry <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 07:33:43 -0600
on 3/20/03 10:37 PM, email@hidden at
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Message: 2
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:42:49 -0800
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Subject: Black & white printing
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From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
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To: <email@hidden>, <email@hidden>
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Armand Rosenberg wrote:
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> Would anyone care to recommend an inexpensive printer to be dedicated
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> for making b&w prints, up to 8.5X11 paper size?
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> I'm tired of fighting with various inkjets/dyesubs to obtain neutral
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> grays at all densities. Smooth tonal transitions are important (so
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> printing using just the black ink of a 4- or 6-color printer hasn't
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> worked well enough for me, on the printers I've tried).
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> Thank you.
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> Armand
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Dear Armand,
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there is light at the end of the tunnel, and it has a neutral tone!
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The Epson 2200 prints up to 13" x 19" (Super B) for cut sheets, and up to
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13" x 44" for paper rolls, and is being used successfully by many
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photographers (usually a demanding bunch indeed! ...and I should know being
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one myself) to produce rather neutral grayscale images using the full set of
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7 UltraChrome inks that are standard in this pigment-based inkjet printer,
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as well as on the Epson 10600, 9600 and 7600 for larger prints than
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letter-size. I have not used the 2200 directly, but I have heard very good
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reviews from people whose judgment I value highly.
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The solution that you mention, that of printing using only the black ink, is
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unsatisfying to me, personally, because I do perceive a disturbing
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granularity in the image, due to the absence of carefully placed and spaced
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dots of other ink colors (C, M, Y and the other ones present depending on
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the sets used in different inkjet printheads) that are vital to creating the
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appearance of a smooth image.
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The Epson 2200 is currently priced at $699.95, which may not meet your
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definition of "inexpensive", although I would strongly advise you at least
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to explore this very promising technology. Best of luck to you.
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Marco Ugolini
Armand,
There is only one problem in that if you are using Mac OSX you will not be
able to use custom paper size or roll paper for printing. Epson has yet to
fix that problem. OS 9 will give you all of the custom and roll paper
printing you expect.
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