Digital BW, The Print

I have NOT used the Epson Rip with the 2200 but looked at several B&W 
photos that Geo DeWolfe made, at his home last week, for the review 
he did for Camera Art and no way could I see any color shift under 
diff lighting. Dead neutral

Vinny
http://www.wulfsden.com




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "plnelson2003 
<peter@s...>" <peter@s...> wrote:
> --- 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?