Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "photon_arts" 
<photon@w...> wrote:
> -Antonis,
> 
> Thanks for your detailed reply.
> 
> I went and looked at the R9, but it looked like just the Cone SW 
that
> I already have for my 3000, didn't list the larger printers.
> 
> The 7500 owner is asking $2000 without stand which I think is 
high,
> since a new 7600 is only 50% more.
> 
> Do you know what's up with the RIP? Will it work? I thought that 
there
> was a special one for the lagre format printers.
> 
> ken

Hi Ken,

I'm also looking at buying a 7500.   Ebay has had a few sell
lately.  There's a place selling refurbs with Buy-It-Now of $2300
(no stand).  I think the last used one went for about $1800.

The guy that's selling the one I'm considering has been using
Imageprint with the standard Epson inks, but  I definitely want
to run some B&W ink set -- most likely MIS VM Sepia.
I think Imageprint would be about $1500 and you still need
profiles, too.  I'm going to go with the ordinary epson driver to
start with and since I'm on a Mac hopefully I could migrate to
the Gimp driver that allows direct access to each ink.  The 
last part is very hypothetical for now, but I think it has potential.

Roy