Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Thomas Fors" 
<tom@f...> wrote:
> For the curious, I would suggest further testing by 
> someone (not me) of the Epson RIP.

How many people here have tried the Epson RIP?  (could
we see a show of hands?)   I've been trying with difficulty
to follow that topic here but there was some confusion in the 
way some messages were quoted Monday so now I'm confused.  I'd
love to have an alternative to the IP because the IP is so
expensive.  But I need to make color prints of predominantly 
black and white subjects so quadtones or Black Only are not
options.

What I **THINK** I've seen is that two people have tried the
Epson RIP and made radically different conclusions about its
metamerism: one says it's no better than the default Epson 
drivers (i.e., it stinks) and the other says that it seems 
to fix the metamerism (but maybe there are other problems with
it, like grayscale evennes?)   Both seem to agree that the 
Epson documentation is a bad joke.

But I'm confused about some of the postings so my above 
summary may be way wide of the mark.

I asked on the Photo.Net Digital Darkroom forum and no one has
tried the Epson RIP.   Are there other good sources of
reviews or experience with this beast?