> > ....I'm getting great color via digital printing > of film but the BW is not even close to wet, at least > on my system. I think the problem is the printer (Epson 1280). > With only one shade of black ink, it has to do too much > dither, and it aint accurate....
That's definitely the weak point in your system. That's an old printer (a contemporary of the 700 series), and there were always criticisms of the dithering software in the Epson printer drivers. Quite apart from the general improvements in printers (you can get double the linear dpi of that olde Epson nowadays) there are even one or two printers that work with two shades of black ink. Even better, though, are some third-party packages which replace the regular three-colour ink cartridges on some printers with a cartridge containig three shades of grey. That, together with their own conversion software, are reported to produce stunning resuts with greyscale images.
