Black and White on an Inkjet Printer

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I was told of a magazine article recently about someone having great success
printing black and white images with an inkjet printer using the black printer
setting rather than the color setting. The author used some printer settings
that resulted in great tonality but had no color cast problems because of the
printer black setting. He or she apparently succeeded despite all the advice
against doing it this way. Does anyone remember the magazine, or can someone
point me to a tutorial? I've tried searching google without success.
Thanks,
Lynn
 
I was told of a magazine article recently about someone having great success
printing black and white images with an inkjet printer using the black printer
setting rather than the color setting. The author used some printer settings
that resulted in great tonality but had no color cast problems because of the
printer black setting. He or she apparently succeeded despite all the advice
against doing it this way. Does anyone remember the magazine, or can someone
point me to a tutorial? I've tried searching google without success.
Thanks,
Lynn
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Inkjets typically mke shades of gray by mixing color inks. This will
always result in some degree of color cast. If the pirnter only has
one black ink, then setting to black only will give no way to get gray
scales.

Newer 7 and 8 color printers have a gray ink in addition to to black.
This of course helps them make much better B&W prints.

THE way to do inkjet B&W is with inksets for the purpose. To read up
on this:

MIS www.inksupply.com
Lyson
InkJetArt
Piezography
and more

If you search in Google on term like "quadtone", "hextone", "and
monochrome inkjet", you should get lots of hits.

I have two Epson printers dedicated to color. A third one (1160--wide
carriage) just showed up on UPS. It will be dedicated to color only
with MIS inks. The 1160 sells like hotcakes on Ebay for only one
reason---B&W printing.
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Mark Herring, Pasadena, Calif.
Private e-mail: Just say no to "No".
 
Mark Herring said:
Inkjets typically mke shades of gray by mixing color inks. This will
always result in some degree of color cast. If the pirnter only has
one black ink, then setting to black only will give no way to get gray
scales.
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Not quite true printers can "make" grey by using a pattern of dots just like
newspapers did.... but this does reduce resolution/picture quality.

One other way is use a "quad black set". This replaces the normal 3 color
cart with a cart containing three levels of grey and new driver S/W.

Colin
 
I was told of a magazine article recently about someone having great success
printing black and white images with an inkjet printer using the black printer
setting rather than the color setting. The author used some printer settings
that resulted in great tonality but had no color cast problems because of the
printer black setting. He or she apparently succeeded despite all the advice
against doing it this way. Does anyone remember the magazine, or can someone
point me to a tutorial? I've tried searching google without success.
Thanks,
Lynn
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My HP7760 has a special optional 'gray' cartridge for just that
purpose. You pull out one of the two mounted cartridges and stick in
a special gray cartridge just when you need the b/w printing.

Pj
 
He was probably using a HP printer! Odd as it may seem some printers
construct their grey scale prints using all the available colours. It only
takes the slightest misscalculation from the printer/driver and you get that
colour cast. Most HP printers now print their grey scales using only the
black cartridge, so long as you set this up in the printer properties.

CrimsonLiar
 
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