Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Kirk Thompson" 
<thompsonkirk@h...> wrote:
> I'm addressing the frustrated person who wrote to say that he or 
> she found quadtone printing too complex.
  

> 2.  A more neutral result can be obtained by using the 
> Photo-Enhanced setting for the regular 2200 driver.  When I first 
> read about this, I dismissed it as it as a crackpot idea - use a 
> distorted color setting to make neutral BW prints?  But it does 
> indeed work, & produces prints that look as if they were printed 
> on cold-tone paper & toned in a dilute selenium solution for 
> archival preservation (i.e., a very slight warming of the upper 
> zones).

The Epson RIP addresses the metamerism problem, not mere 
neutrality.   You can achieve neutrality with the regular in-box 
drivers that ship with the printer but the catch is that they have 
metamerism, i.e., they are only neutral for your intended light 
source.