Digital BW, The Print

A question for Daniel...

I have finally been able to try PowerRip and have to
say it has been a very frustrating experience.
Frustrating because the tone of the print was very,
very nice with no, or negligible, metamerism. BUT the
dither pattern was totally unacceptable. I tried the
two options for dithering in the driver and 2880 as
well. In all cases it was a very noticeable pattern.
Do you know if Imageprint has a dither pattern at
least as good as the Epson driver? I am trying to get
a demo of the app but so far my requests to the uk rep
have been fruitless. I have seen from your other posts
that the Ultratones are producing very good results
but I don't feel like going through the refill route,
although there may not be an alternative.

It seems crazy to buy a RIP just for B&W printing,
given the cost, when 90% of the functionality is not
required. I'm sure that if ImagePrint were to make a
driver available with all the other functions ripped
out - and at a reasonable price - they'd sell loads of
them. I also think that it's a poor show from Epson
that they don't include this function in their own
driver given that the printer is capable of it.

So far, without special inks or drivers, the best B&W
I've produced are on PermJet Museum Classic with a
slight tone adjustment. For some reason metamerism
seems less with this paper than with others. But what
I'd like is the neutrality of of the PowerRip with the
dither of the Epson.

Nick

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