Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, 
"johngeyles <jge@c...>" <jge@c...> wrote:
> Roy,
> 
> Thanks for asking.
> 
> > I'm a little confused on what you are looking for.   It seems
> > to me that every B&W workflow works just fine in OS9.  All
> > the printer drivers are available, all the RGB workflows for
> > MIS inks work.  So is there some reason that you don't
> > already have "reliable consistent B&W printing" ?
> 
> Maybe I forgot to mention I've got an Epson 2200.
> My options are to check "Black" in the print driver, which uses
> only the "primary" black cartidge (not the "light black") and gives
> a fairly grainy look, or to use "Color" which gives metamerism
> (my prints look ok under incandescent, but blue in daytime).
> 
> Unless I'm seriously mistaken, MIS has no inksets available 
for the
> 2200 as yet, although it's rumored this may soon change.
> 
> > Moving to OSX to print doesn't make a lot of sense since you
> > should have everything now. 
> 
> The hope is that a software "magic bullet" might give me 
accepatble
> prints with the 2200 and its stock UltraChrome inks.  Looks 
like
> ImagePrint 5 might be such a bullet, but it costs as much as a
> new printer.    A recent poster here suggested gimp-print, 
which
> only runs under Unix (of which OSX is a form).
> 
> Thanks, John

Ah, I understand now.  I think the newest solution with a
possible "magic bullet" is Epson's latest RIP for the 2200.
Someone recently mentioned ordering that, hopefully they
can give a report.  

Roy