Digital BW, The Print

treadwinkle,

it's a trade off: you get decent bw with less hassle from the 2200: it's a great 
one-printer solution, and the ultrachromes seem to be stable. OTOH, you can't 
print nice platinum-looking prints on a variety of matte papers as you can with 
the quad systems. 

If you want bw on glossy or luster papers, the 2200 is probably the only way to 
go. If you want  matte papers, and the quality of the quads when used with 
decent software, the 2200 doesn't quite cut it, especially if used with the 
Epson driver and no custom profiles. Those with PCs and the ImagePrint 
driver may have a different opinion - it's a combination I haven't tried or seen 
results from. Very promising, but it'll cost you an additional $500 to get .

I'd say that it's a fair trade off to avoid the hassles - just remember that the ink 
will cost you 4 times the cost of Gen4 or equivalent. 

Antonis


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "treadwinkle" <VOLveeta@b...> 
wrote:
> So... can I quit with the quads, piezos, MIS and all that crap and 
> move on?  Seriously, have you been using these and the 2200 does 
> what they attempt to do?
> 
> Lemme know!  I hope so!!! :-)
> 
> treadwinkle