photo B&W printer

Dear all,
I'm looking for a "top quality" photo B&W printer.
The only solution seems to use an standard Epson "photo" printer
with MIS B&W quadricrome ink
This is a special cartridges filled with 4 different gray ink. (25%,
50%, 75%, 100% black).
Any other solution?
Many years ago, I used a similar solution, but the printer used a solid
ink (similar to a 'soap') but I'm not able to find a similar
printer in the market.
Thanks
Luca Moreschi
P.S: sorry for my bad English

luca.moreschi.DeleteThis@siemens.com wrote:

> Dear all,
> I'm looking for a "top quality" photo B&W printer.
> The only solution seems to use an standard Epson "photo" printer
> with MIS B&W quadricrome ink
> This is a special cartridges filled with 4 different gray ink. (25%,
> 50%, 75%, 100% black).
> Any other solution?
> Many years ago, I used a similar solution, but the printer used a solid
> ink (similar to a 'soap') but I'm not able to find a similar
> printer in the market.

That sounds like the "solid ink" technology that was available on a few
machines from Tektronix and Dataproducts. Xerox bought out the Tektronix
printer operation a while back and is still making the solid ink models,
further they seem to have lowered the entry level price to something
reasonable.

I can't see where that's a better solution than quadrichrome ink though.

> Thanks
> Luca Moreschi
> P.S: sorry for my bad English

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