Digital BW, The Print

Good printer, Scott; I still miss mine. I never tried a quad tone 
inkset in it. It coped well with a variety of papers. The 
heaviest/thickest I remember using in it was Crane's 300 gsm uncoated 
cover stock, which wasn't very useful due to the dot gain. If someone 
gave me one (and I could find some place to put it!), I think I'd try 
Lyson's Small Gamut Photonic inkset in it if Lyson supports that. But 
I assume that would be a more expensive experiment. I think it would 
make a good printer for one of the MIS VM inksets, but I don't think 
anyone has developed the necessary (I guess) curves for it. 
Incidentally, the 900 is, I believe, one of the few printers for 
which Adobe's discontinued PressReady rip works.

Sam

Sam McCandless       samcc@...


>I was just given a 'new' Epson Stylus Color 900 printer (two years
>old but never used) at no cost.
>
>I'm thinking of trying my hand at some B&W printing (files from a
>new digital camera) and thought a low-cost experiment would be to
>buy / install a set of MIS Quadtone inks (MIS has pre-filled
>Quadtone cartidges for the 900).
>
>Does anyone here have any experience with this Epson model ?  If so,
>I'll take any suggestions on setup, paper recommendations, workflow,
>etc.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Scott