Just to be clear, you are using the C80 with its regular (pigmented) ink set, but printing only in black (black ink) to produce monochrome (black and white)... is that correct? Some people use the whole color inkset to make black and white prints to extend the gradients, creating grays with all three colors (CMY). Many people have indicated they don't like the most of the Epsons for printing with just black ink. but prefer either using the the quad black toned inks, or the full inkset in monochrome printing. Some complain they can't get grays that remain balanced throughout the density range when using the full inkset. I find I get good results with the older Epsons (Stylus Pro for instance) using just black ink to produce monochromic prints. Art Brent Dorsett wrote: > I've tried many different systems for getting quality B&W prints with > varying degrees of success. Recently Chris Bair at The Stock Solution > suggested using the Epson C80 ( pigment ) printer with black ink only at > 2880 dpi. I bought one and the results with heavy weight matte and Osprey > paper have been super. Beautiful smooth tonality. > > Brent Dorsett --- NYC > > - > Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate > subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions. > > . > > - Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions.