Digital BW, The Print

Peter-

Are you asking when simple reliable BW printing will be available or 
when it will be available using color inks on the 2200?

If you insist on using the the 2200 and color inks you will, it seems, 
not be happy with the results.  If you use quadtone inks ( I only have 
experience with MIS or Piezotones) you will get the quality you are 
looking for.  If you opt for the piezography plugin you will get the an 
easy to use simple, reliable repeatable system that works on a variety 
of papers.  If you use an epson 3000 you will have a robust printer as 
well.

If you want to easily make quality B&W prints -- just do it.  If you 
want to use the 2200 you just bought you will have to wait to meet all 
the criteria you have set out.

--
Kevin Gulstene


On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 07:39  AM, peter nelson wrote:

>
> I recently bought a 2200 because some reviews said it did
> good black and white printing.  But it has so much metamerism
> that the black and white prints it makes are unacceptable.
>
> My darkroom is just a dark corner of the basement and it needs
> major upgrades in plumbing, electricity, and ventilation.
> I was hoping to go all-digital and skip the upgrade but It
> seems I'm still waiting for a simple-off-the-shelf solution
> to digital black and white printing.
>
> I like the 2200 because of its pigment-based inks, wide
> format, 48-mil thick media spec, and flat feed tray.
>
> Reading this forum and Photo.Net I can see people are desperate
> and try a zillion different approaches to black and white ranging
> from black-only to expensive RIPs to profilers to hextone printing.
> Everyone has their special approach and no one method seems
> to be endorsed by more than a few percent of users.
>
> I'm reluctant to go to a hextone system because of all the hassles
> I've heard about with it; the need to maintain TWO big, wide format
> printers, the risk of voiding my extended warranties with third-party
> inks, questions that have been raised here about color stability,
> blackness, and metamerism, and the chip wars between ink
> makers and Epson (Epson makes its money on INKS not printers).
>
> My question is should I upgrade my darkroom and stick with darkroom
> prints for B+W or will we SOON see a straightforward, off
> the shelf solution to digital black-and-white printing?
>
> ---peter
>
>
>
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