Digital BW, The Print

Stan,

Please post your results as you go along.  

I just got my 2200 a few days ago, and am still playing with it.  There are 
some nice free profiles at <http://www.timgrey.com/profiles/>.  They are 
optimized for tungsten and do a nice job of overcoming the inherent 
metamerism of the Ultrachrome inks.  They work better with color images 
(rather than BW) on E. Premium SemiGloss and EAM, the only 2 papers I have 
tested so far.  Printing grayscale images with these profiles on those 2 
papers yield poor results -- blocked shadows and very green in daylight.

Here are 2 other sites to check out.  I haven't tried the methodologies yet.

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/printers/2200-bw.shtml

<A HREF="http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/printers/2200-techniques.shtml">http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/printers/2200-techniques.shtml</A>

Also, I haven't tried the canned Epson profiles or the Gray Balancer yet.  Do 
you know how to download the english version of Gray Balancer?

I am very interested in IP5, particularly for B+W.  So, let us know what you 
find.

Helene



> The 2200 finally arrived (actually 2 arrived but that's another
> story)along with IP5.
> If I missed a grayscale workflow for this combination, let me know. If
> not, please post one if you have it. I'm very familiar with IP4, having
> used it for more than a year on the 10000cf. The myriad (and cryptic)
> settings are very Colorbyte and I'ver deciphered most.



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