Digital BW, The Print

I thnk I've got it. 

My problem was that the trailing edge of the image was not being 
printed well. After processing through the suggestions I received I 
thought it might be some buffer/spool somewhere was not being large 
enough. I searched and could not find how to change it. I thought 
that probably it might be a common epson thing so in frustration 
removed all my epson software and installed things back one at a 
time with the RIP being second (after the 2200 driver) and it 
worked. I put back my second printer (777) and the scanner (3200), 
they worked and the RIP still worked. Right now I am a happy camper. 
The B&W are the best I have done. I tried a dedicated ink system for 
an older 870 epson and those were good, these are better. 

Robert






> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com,
> "robert_ardinger" 
> <rardinger@k...> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I have been reading the group for awhile and recently joined.  I 
> > have a question I am puzzled over.
> > 
> > I am using the Epson 2200 printer, Matte black ink, PS7, WinXP
> home, 
> > 2.4 ghz, 1 gb ram. I have no problem using the Epson dirver for 
> > color and have learned (from this group) a "workflow" that 
prints 
> > very nice Black and White orints with only a hint of metamersim. 
> To 
> > improve matters I bought the Epson Stylus 2200 RIP and after a 
few 
> > false starts got it to produce very nice black and white 
images.  
> > The only problem is that no matter what my settings, the 
trailing 
> > edge (last out of the printer) has about a near 1/4 inch fade to
> it, 
> > like the printer just slowly stopped using some of the ink.
> > 
> > you can see the problem at:
> > 
> > http://home.kc.rr.com/rardinger/fading.jpg
> > 
> > These are scans of parts of two pictures, one with the RIP the
> other 
> > without.  (the one without does not look that magenta in person 
but 
> > does shift to a slight magenta underdifferent light.
> > 
> > I have gone through the settings on the RIP and think it is close
> to 
> > correct for a good B&W image but I cannot shake the fading off 
at 
> > the end of the print. If I flip the image it happens to the 
other 
> > side (the trailing edge that was once the leading edge).
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for the help.
> > 
> > Robert