Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Robert G. Morrison" 
<rmorrison@p...> wrote:
In my experience the dmax
> may not be much higher than the epson  driver (but is usually 
higher than
> the piezo driver)...but the shadow detail is like night and day.

This shadow detail issue is the only nagging thing that I still 
have, after a well-profiled 9600. And I've had it with the 7000 too, 
and it's the first thing I look for when somebody shows me an 
inkjet print. I call it the "falling off the cliff syndrome"; where 
everything from about 90% to pure black falls off the cliff to pure 
black. When I look at a new stepwedge, it's always where my 
attention goes first.

In my (in)experience with these printers, this is still their
Achilles 
Heel; that extreme subtlety between 90% and pure black. Maybe 
that's the shortcoming only of the Epson driver.

Still, would I shell out $2500 for that one issue alone; probably 
not. When do you cross the line from obsessive to neurotic?

MT