Thanks all of you for your advises and ideas! I understand that making real black dyes is not easy, so difficult to buy. I order a B&W inkset for Canon by Mikling over Ebay and hope that the blacks/greys are more real black then other inks. And for sure they are useful for my Canon i9100 that I...
Thanks for your quick responses and advises! It for sure that using the special grey modus only the black colour is used, possible using the very slow raster print technology. Looking through a microscope no coloured spots on the paper, only a black raster with variation in density like high...
The special greyscale-modus of the Pro9000 MKII) is explained in the posts above. Canon achieves this by simulating raster-printing with only the black cartridge. The problem is, that only Canons ink is black and gives no colour casts (but the cartridge is empty after five a3+ prints). All other...
Thank you for your comment. Indeed most printers use all colors for greyscale printing. But this printer has a special mode for B&W printing: printing with the black cartridge only ! (so very slow: one A3 print takes about half an hour...). This is the reason i buy the Pro9000. So it is very...
Real black dye ink, that's what i'am looking for to refill my Canon Pro9000 MK2. I trye more then 10 refill (bulk) inks, but all of them are dark purple, dark reddish or dark green. So i always get a color-cast when printing in the black&white modus; that is printing with only the black CLI8Bk...