Digital BW, The Print

andrew, so far I have been disappointed in image print for the 2200. 
for $500 bucks I expected a finer dither at 1440 and at least some
color controls (the available driver color controls are  another $500
so they tell me).   Anyway I think their 1440 is a joke...and their
2880 High speed is not great either.  both dither patterns are
coarser that the standard 2200 epson 1440 (high speed off) driver in
my experience.  maybe I'm doing something wrong but I expected to
have a finer dither pattern.  by the way 2880 on any paper using the
image print RIP with the epson 2200 is painfully slow. eleanor brown

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Rodney
<andrew@d...> wrote:
> on 1/16/03 9:45 PM, jim hayes:
> 
> > A few days ago Colorbyte e-mailed me an update which allows mat
paper
> > printing at 2880 (even though it looks as if it's available in the
> > pull down). No profiles for mat paper at 2880 exist yet AFAIK
though.
> 
> 
> You do NOT want to print at 2880. First, with IP or the Epson
driver it
> takes forever but worse, you lose variable dot dither. The 2880 is
IMHO more
> a high figure to look good to marketing than anything else. Print
with IP at
> 1440; you'll get a better print and in far less time.
> 
> Andrew Rodney