>I have been told that black is a memory hog.

Hi Andrew,

As far as compressing images, no color is better than any other
as far as gobbling up space (or megabytes). Possibly this information
comes in a roundabout way through the printing process. Here, black is
definitely a bear to deal with. The reason is that true black is really
black, cyan, magenta and yellow (typically 100% black ink, 50% cyan,
40% red and 30% yellow), making it far more costly that simple reds,
blues or yellows. Printers cringe when they see too many solid blacks.
But in terms of digital data, a solid color is the simplest to compress, be
it white, red, blue, black, etc.

Best regards,
Jim

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