Advanced B&W: Available with Matte Black!
Advanced B&W Mode IS AVAILABLE with the combination of Matte paper/ Matte black installed! Very good.
I would've been ok with it had it not been available. I'm wondering if Color mode may be the way to go for B&W as it supports the use of profiles. Epson recommend a setting of 'No Color Management' or 'Let Printer determine Colors' when intending to use Advanced B&W. I need to do some more testing.
Don't get me wrong though, the Advanced B&W Mode has produced awesome results that may unnerve people who have already shelled out for expensive B&W solutions - it's that easy! B&W prints using Color mode also look great out-of-the-box using canned profiles. Power to the people :)
posted by Pete Walsh @ 2:08 PM 4 comments
At 3:07 PM, John said...
Pete-
"B&W prints using color mode look great...."
What this implies is that neutral areas in color prints will print neutral, and not have color variations like on other printers. In other words, a grayscale embedded in a color test chart will show a neutral gradation throughout.
-John
At 3:09 PM, Pete Walsh said...
Yes! You should write my copy! :)
At 5:47 PM, Pete Walsh said...
But what I haven't really checked yet is how stable the B&W's are printed using Color mode vs Advanced B&W.
I'd half expect the Advanced B&W to be a better, given they are printed using only the blacks, light cyan and light magenta, whereas the B&W printed using Color mode - well, I don't know what inks that ends up using, whatever it needs I guess!
At 12:24 PM, Anonymous said...
take a look with a powerful loupe (down to dot size) you'll see the Advanced B&W uses more than just ltM and ltC colour inks in the mix, such as yellow:
http://home1.gte.net/res09aij/4800-EEM-N-1600dpi-Scan-x3.jpg
Compared to quad inks in a 2200:
http://home1.gte.net/res09aij/2200-UT7-EEM-N-1600dpi-Scan-x3.jpg
more info towards the bottom:
http://home1.gte.net/res09aij/index.htm
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