Digital BW, The Print

Mitch Alland wrote:

> Another possible complication: the new 2100 is supposed to have a facility for making neutral B&W prints that >are not possible with the 1280 with the original color inks. You could wait to see how the 2100 performs on B&>W, but I am sceptical whether it will have the smoothness of the Piezography driver, particulalrly in the mid-tones. But if you want good information on how the 21000 really performs on B&W, you may have too wait >   >until you can see prints with your owjn eyes, or until some people like Martin Wesley write a review. You can't  >>trust just any review, on the Luminous Landscape forum, for example, when the 1280 first came out, there were >several people raving about how it produced "perfectly neutral" B&W right out of the box.
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As far as the 2200 goes for B&W, the big factor will be how much
metamerism the new Ultrachrome inks exhibit. The metamrism level on the
2000P inks are awful oin B&W and some color images !!. From the early
reports that I have read the new inks for the 2100 /2200 have reduced
metamerism but it is still noticeable ( I wonder if it will exhibit less
than the 1280 OEM inks). This is where the Cone and MIS quad inks really
have a major advantage.... no metamerism.

-Jeff