Digital BW, The Print

I posted the message below on another list. 

I have made three B&W prints using Qimage, Epson's Enhanced Matte Paper with Matte Black ink and each print was made with exactly the same image. Two of the prints were made using Epson's RIP for the 2200 printer. The only difference in the settings to make these prints with the RIP was in one the color button was chosen and in the other the B&W button was chosen. The third print was made using Carl Schofield's method. 

A quick "jury" was assembled :-) to judge which of the prints was the better one. The clear consensus was that the one printed using the RIP, with the color button selected, was marginally better than the one with printed with the RIP with the B&W button chosen. The difference was in the greater degree of contrast with the print made with the color button turned on. The one printed with Mr. Schofield's method was good but had a light cast to it. The cast is hard to describe but maybe bluish might be descriptive. I am talking very, very slight cast to this very acceptable black and white print. All three were good. I see no dots or lines in any of the prints. I am still looking for metamerism and see no signs of it with these prints.

The major criticism of the RIP print made with the color button chosen is that is extraordinarily slow, slow, slow.

I don't understand yet what is causing the printing to be slow when choosing to print in color. The instructions from Epson, which are buried in the disk, are of minimal help. Very minimal help!

I will be showing these prints to a person who has spent many years in a chemical darkroom printing B&W's. I am looking forward to his critique.

Peter Palmieri


  From: chipcarterdc < 

  Several people last week commented on their experience thus far with 
  Epson's new RIP for the 2200.  Any additional info you (or others) 
  would like to share re: how it's going now that you've worked with it 
  for a bit?

  I'm really interested because I have ImagePrint, but I'm not in love 
  with it (user interface isn't great, no soft proofing with grayscale 
  profiles, images look washed out when imported into ImagePrint from 
  Photoshop, etc.).  While the guys at Colorbyte have been helpful, and 
  the results from ImagePrint are indeed neutral w. no metamerism, the 
  program's just too difficult for my taste. I have the Epson RIP on 
  order (should arrive tomorrow).  If I can get good results with it, 
  I'd really like to return ImagePrint.  Yes, I'll do comparison 
  testing myself; however, I'd like to hear more real world results 
  from users of Epson's RIP before I open the package (can't return it 
  to Epson once the software is opened).

  Thanks!


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