Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Ernst Dinkla" <e.dinkla@c...> wrote:

> Before Epson launched the new Ultrachrome printers there was some
> speculation what would be a nice printer for colour and B&W. With unlimited
> head numbers one can get anything frome Hexachrome to Hexatone.

Let's be a bit more accurate here. The 2200 will never print Hexachrome until 
Epson produces an Orange and Green ink. If you want a quick look at what 
Hexacrhome is (a Pantone product) go to http://www.pantone.de/content/
Pages/HexExpA.htm.

> However a six head printer with today's variable, small droplet sizes could
> have been a CMY+3K printer. In monochrome the 3K's would have been
> sufficient for a good quality B&W. Monochrome on the Ultrachrome printers
> means only black ink printing. Someone measured the grey of the 9600 with 
a
> spectrometer and it is quite yellow he wrote, not the right start for a B&W
> printer. 

Yes and this is true of the 2200. If you ask the driver to ONLY give you the two 
black inks, the output is very warm. It's a nice look but far from neutral. The 
black only option with the 2200 (and 9600) isn't anything like what we had as 
an option with the older printers where you'd get real neutral output using just 
the black ink (but lose quality due to the loss of the other inks).