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Hooray for Hewlett-Packard!

HP 7960 / 7660 First Look
Back on July 27th, 2003, I wrote a colum called "Where the HECK is Digital B&W?!?" bemoaning, rather dyspeptically I suppose, the lack of an inkjet printer with decent built-in B&W capability.
No sooner had I written that column than Hewlett-Packard announced a new printer that had just that — the World’s first. The HP 7960, which is HP’s new top-of-the-line consumer desktop printer, incorporates a single “grays” ink cartridge (Officially: “HP 59 Gray Photo Inkjet Cartridge, available separately”) that contains three inks: black, gray, and light gray. The HP 7960’s driver makes it relatively easy to make good black-and-white prints right out of the box — no long learning curve or expensive aftermarket add-ons needed.
It’s basically just what I thought had been missing from the market.
HP isn’t making much of a big deal of its new printer’s B&...

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