Digital BW, The Print

Greg, thanks for the response.   I'm not sure how to answer your question,
such is my level of confusion regarding the various options of ink sets
and drivers.  I guess I was seeking guidance even on that basic question.

I am willing to make my 2200 a dedicated B&W printer, with one of the
ink sets like UT7, *if* it seems worth it (or change out the cartridges).
And it DOES sound like it's worth it, based on all the interest.
Perhaps I should try out QTR with the OEM UltraChrome inks, and then
maybe purchase a set of UT7 carts and try that with OEM driver and
with QTR.  I am also wondering about the various choices of UltraTone
shown in the table:

http://www.inksupply.com/qn.cfm

I've read the descriptions, but still wonder about the tradeoffs for the
there UT ink sets shown for the 2200: in addition to UT7, there's UT,
and UT-3D.

John

> I have always been under the impression that it was the pigment inks that were prone to meteramism. Some papers were worse than others and Epson did produce several versions of their 2000P driver to try and combat the problem.
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> I did not think the carbon inksets were prone to meteramism, or not as badly as the pigment colour inks.
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> Which leads me to ask, What sort of black and white printing were you planning on doing? Were you thinking about the quadtone black and it variants or were you going to adopt the colour inks and mixing down to grey approach.
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> MIS have the UT7 inkset that is quite versatile. Paul Roark has a writeup on its use on his website. A couple of plusses for that inkset are that you can use the Epson printer driver, and you can purchase cartriges prefilled with the UT7 inks.
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> Cheers
> Greg Nixon.
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jge@> wrote:
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> > Really, can metamerism be a characteristic of a printer (the hardware),
> > as opposed to the driver and/or the inks ?   That is discouraging indeed.
> > 
> > I hate to be dense, but what does "XP" refer to ?   The Windows OS ?
> > The Ilford chromagenic film ?
> > 
> > John
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