Digital BW, The Print

Lawrence,

At this point I have a fair amount of experience with the Selenium
PiezoTones and three prints and some step wedges on EAM from Carl
Schofield's 2200 to compare. Carl's prints were done with the supplied Epson
driver and no custom profiles.

What I see in the 2200 prints is a neutral tone print with no color
crossovers and very mild metamerism. Like the 2000P prints they tend toward
the magenta-purple in tungsten light and toward yellow or yellow-green in
daylight. The amount is much, much less than the 2000P prints. It is just a
bit too strong for my own tastes but I think that many people will not
notice it at all or will find it acceptable. The tone in tungsten light is
rather nice. I assume that it would be possible to adjust the color balance
or use a custom profile to get a neutral tone for a particular light source.

The tonality of the 2200 prints is very smooth. Carl's prints were from a
Canon D-30 and that clean, grainless quality is very well produced. This
looks to be a very good print engine and I look forward to when it is
possible to use it with third party inks. Is it a better than the 1280? Hard
to say without being able to print the same image on both. When my 1280 is
running well, which is most of the time, I would say they appear to be
comparable.

For myself I will stick with Selenium PT, MIS-VM or WN-PT because I prefer
the hue of those inks, they exhibit more chromatic complexity than the 2200
prints and the life of the 2200 prints is not acceptable to me. I would like
to have a 2200 for color work, but for B&W I would still recommend a 1280
and a grayscale ink for desktop printing.

Martin Wesley

http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html



----- Original Message -----
From: "lawrencetrek" <ltitle@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 12:24 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Comparison of PiezoTones vs. Epson 2200


> Is there anyone out there with significant experience with the PiezoTone
inks
> and who also has tried printing B/W output from the Epson 2200 who can
> critically compare these two.  There are conflicting reports:  some are
ready to
> pack up Piezography, while others are saying the 2200 still can't compete
for
> B/W output (e.g. continued problems with color casts and metamerism).  I
am
> especially interested in anyone who has custom printer profiles for their
2200
> or who has access to the Gray Balancer software.
>
>
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