Bill,
We do, in fact, define "monochrome" as being 1 colorant, typically black. A vendor might choose to implement an IPP Printer that uses blue ink, for example, but I expect the mainstream usage to be black ink.
On Apr 19, 2012, at 5:55 PM, William Wagner wrote:
> Michael,
> My memory might be off, but although the distinction between monochrome and
> process monochrome as referring to marking with a single colorant versus
> obtaining that color from multiple colorants is right, I thought that we
> used the term 'monochrome' rather than just 'black' to refer to one-color
> printing, where that color was usually but not necessarily black. But
> perhaps it is an unimportant distinction.
> Thanks,
> Bill Wagner
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> Cc: ipp at pwg.org> Subject: Re: [IPP] WG Last Call - IPP Job and Printer Extensions - Set 3
> (JPS3) (April 9 through April 18, 2012)
>> James,
>> On Apr 19, 2012, at 2:30 PM, James Cloos wrote:
>> Apologies for the stupid question, but I couldn't find an explanation....
>>>> For a colour printer, what is the difference between monochrome and
>> process-monochome?
>>> monochrome is black using 1 color (black).
>> process-monochrome is black using many colors (typically black plus varying
> amounts of cyan, magenta, and yellow, although it can also apply to black
> from just cyan, magenta, and yellow).
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