Re: Use of black ink on Epson Photo EX

["James W. McCandless" <jameswmc@frontiernet.net>]

	Thanks for your help Gary. I'm using the Epson RIP on my EX
and will try various output using CMYK profiles and see what happens.

	James W.

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>In general that's a question for someone else, but in the context of 
>Epson printers, it doesn't matter--the printer prints with CMYK inks
>(including light cyan and magenta, in the case of the 6-color ones),
>so the only way you could directly control black ink usage (at the
>expense of CMY) would be to bypass the Epson RGB driver and
>control CMYK output directly--RIPs are the software that can make
>that possible.  (But the complexity of doing this is more than the
>casual user is likely to be interested in--and it would take a lot
>of ink savings to pay for the software.)
>
>Gary Hunt <glh@srv.net>
>

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