Digital BW, The Print

Keith,

Calm down! Most people on this list seem to print on matte fine-art type of
papers (from what I have read). Therefore if they purchased the 2200 they
would install the matte black cartridge and would not be swapping cartridges
all the time to print on gloss paper. I tend to prefer slightly glossy
papers (such as Epson Photo Paper) for B&W and do not use matte papers for
anything. Therefore I would be happy with a photo black cartridge and would
not be swapping cartridges every 5 minutes.

There may be someone else like you, who wants to swap black cartridges all
the time, and in that case you must realise that the 2200 does not have the
long feeder tubes between ink tanks and heads that the 7600 has, and
therefore it will not use up so much ink as the 7600 does in purging the
black ink.

The fact that the 7600 uses a lot of ink if you do swap black cartridges is
not a revelation; Epson state it in the 7600 specs - if you care to read
them. I haven't seen anything from Epson that says it was 'impossible' to
design a 2200 printer that purges black separately from color inks. I
imagine that it simply takes more money than they were prepare to spend on
giving you a cheap 7-ink printer with a choice of blacks. The sort of people
who buy 7600's will probably have one for printer for B&W and another one
for color, so they won't have a problem either!

Talk about making a mountain out of a molehill!

Bob Frost.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Editor P.O.V. Image Service" <editor@...>

> How about the fact that every time you swap the matte or glossy black
> cartridge out EVERY cartridge in the machine goes through a purge
> cycle...  They say it was IMPOSSIBLE to design a printer so it purged
> only the black ... YEAH... I believe that, and the orange shift has
> NOTHING to do with FLAWED cyan dyes, it was all in the paper...  PUHLEAZE!
>
> Not like EPSON wants people wasting ink or anything... LOL