Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "carlislematthew
<carlislematthew@h...>" <carlislematthew@h...> wrote:
> Yes, I tried 2880dpi.  I'm not too dissapointed with it, but I think 
> that I can probably buy a decent amount of MIS ink for 200 bucks and 
> get REALLY good output.  I feel like PowerRIP gets me 90% of where I 
> want to be.

I can understand that. I think if I had an extra printer sitting
around I would spend the money on inks for that instead of a RIP for
the 2200 as well.

Haven't yet seen a quad-print myself, but I asked Clayton, who has one
of my PowerRIP-prints, what he thought about it in comparison. He said
it was slightly more coarse but still looked good, so I think your
statement about the prints being 90% of the way there are a pretty
good description of what I'm getting - if dotless quad-prints are your
goal that is.

Sadly, I think at $289 it's the lowest cost solution to getting near
metamerism-free prints on the 2200 so far. Maybe the Epson RIP will
change that, but I've yet to hear anything positive about it.

Just out of curiosity, how much metamerism were you still able to see?
I personally can't see much, maybe a slight shift in tone in daylight,
but I find it very hard to tell. Haven't tried sunlight yet, not much
of that in Norway at the moment...