Digital BW, The Print

Boris,

Matthew is right.  I should have mentioned before that when I 
printed with VM ink I used the 1290 Roark curves on my 1280.  I 
downloaded the 1290 driver to use with it.  It works fine and the 
curves are much better.  At least for me they were.  Give it a try.

Tom

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Matthew 
Carlisle" <matthewcarlisle@c...> wrote:
> Boris,
> 
> If you buy the 2200 you'll probably end up getting MORE frustrated 
than you
> are right now.  I have one for color but I gave up trying to print 
B&W on it
> a long time ago.
> 
> There are quite a lot of settings, but one thing that really 
really worked
> for me was to use the Roark curves intended for the Epson 1290, 
even though
> I have a 1280.  The 1280 curves gave me the kind of results that 
you are
> talking about, and I wasn't happy with them.  I tried the Tyler 
Boley curves
> for the 1280 and found that they were great except for this little 
annoying
> step in the middle of the scale.
> 
> I think I might have read something (probably on this group) one 
day because
> I tried the 1290 curves (Same as source, Adobe RBG, NCA) and they 
were
> PERFECT.  Perfect smoooooth ramp.  Wonderful.  Note: check the 
settings for
> yourself rather than rely on me as I haven't done any printing for 
a little
> while and might have forgotten the correct ones.
> 
> The 1280 and 1290 are supposed to be the "same", but I've heard 
talk of
> potential differences here and there.  I'm wondering if they 
changed the
> printer at some point and made the 1280 exactly the same as the 
1290.
> Someone on this forum probably knows - I'm just guessing.
> 
> Give it a whirl!
> 
>    Matthew