Digital BW, The Print

Yes, the black ink that COMES WITH THE 1280 PRINTER has metamerism. 
Don't know much about the 2200
printer yet.

Jerry

plnelson2003 wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Jerry Olson 
> <jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> 
>>Yes. Epson Black has terrible metamerism.  Get the 
>>Enhanced Generations 4 Black from Media street. A 
>>beautiful black tone, and practically no metamerism. 

> The black on the 1280 has metamerism?  I don't own a 1280
> but on my 2200 the (matte) black is apparently the only ink

  How come
> they knew how to make stable metamerism-free inks back in
> 1895 and a high-tech heavy R&D company like Epson can't
> do it?

That is a very good question. They probably used pure carbon back then 
for blacks.