Re: Digital negatives for gum printing

[Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com>]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Katharine Thayer wrote:
> won't be providing any data on the question one way or the other. Keith
> says his negatives printed with black ink print gum just as good as the
> negatives printed with color inks; I'll take his word for it but I still
> have to print in color anyway, darn. Those black cartridges are so much
> cheaper.


Black cartridges are cheaper? -- from whom?  I'm testing a very cheap 3rd
party brand beginning with black, since I'm printing black -- and for
comparison went to J&R & got an official Epson black cartridge for the
1160.  It cost $24 (ouch) for an itty bitty thing.  The price for the
three-color pack was exactly the same...$24. I assume that's three times
as much ink (although I didn't examine them closely & nowhere have found
contents listed) -- if so, that would make the black 3 times the price.

Judy