Digital BW, The Print

Yes, you will need special software to use the Ultratones in the 2200.   
I know that the folks that are developing Inkjet Control/Open Print  
Maker are working with MIS to make this a plug and play option for both  
Windows and the Macintosh...but it may take some time.  Many of us are  
using the OEM 2200 with IJC/OPM on a mac now to get great prints...but  
we realize that we need a lighter gray ink to get all the way to a  
fully toned quad performance level.  As soon as the light gray  
Ultratone ink is released in 2200 carts one or the other of us will  
make profiles for OPM using this option and you will be able to  
download them and use them for free in OPM if you are on a Mac.

  It is yet to be determined how much cleaning it will require to go  
back and forth between a Yellow Channel Ultrachrome 2200 cart and a  
cyan cart, for instance.  The only way to fine out will be to try...but  
I'm certain it won't require more than just cleaning cycles.

As far as Imageprint goes...I have 5.5 too.  If you are satisfied with  
the lack of shadow detail in imageprint for BW, then the only  
disadvantages for Image print are dots in the hilights resulting from  
the dark light gray ink of the OEM inkset and  how narrow the toning  
range is...the Ultratones will allow a much broader range using both a  
sepia and blue/magenta toner and also fix the hilight problems.  You  
don't really need the toners...you can get there with the OEM inks as  
well with the appropriate controls.  I think what Imageprint was after  
was not really providing a toning option...but rather allowing people  
to decide what "neutral" was for the.  For many of us we want to be  
able to make "Seleium Toned" or "Sepia toned" prints without the  
metamerism, crossover and poor shadow detail characteristic of the  
epson driver results...so the Ultratones with IJC/OPM is the idea  
option.

Robert

On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 08:36  AM, chipcarterdc wrote:

> I'm intrigued by the ultratones from what I've read.  I have a few
> questions and haven't been able to find answers in the archives
> (maybe I'm just not a good searcher).  Hopefully someone can help me
> out here:
>
> (1) Does use of the ultratones in the 2200 require use of special
> software?  I'm really put off (OK, intimidated) by all the stuff I've
> read regarding various complicated procedures for most of these
> alternative systems (e.g., "you just need to create your own custom
> ink curves to linearize the driver response" -- I have no idea what
> that means and would rather not have to).  When using the ultratones
> in the 2200, do you print with the standard epson software; some
> special MIS software (at an extra cost, presumably); or some 3rd
> party software like this GimpPrint thingy I've read about?
>
> (2) The reason I have a 2200 is to be able to print color and black
> and white on the same printer.  When you pop out the MIS cartridges,
> do you have to run some special or complicated cleaning routine to
> get all the MIS ink out of the printer head before going back to the
> normal epson cartridges?  Or do you just use the epson cleaning
> routine that's available in the epson driver?
>
> (3) I currently have ImagePrint 5.5 and have been the most pleased
> with that for black and white printing in comparison with other
> software I've tested (QuadTone RIP (which I admit I didn't fully
> understand), Epson's RIP for the 2200, black only printing).  Will I
> see a noticeable improvement over ImagePrint by using the MIS inks?
> It seems like the answer must be yes (since I'd be using 7 shades of
> gray ink instead of 2 shades of gray ink plus color ones as with
> ImapgePrint) but I'm interested in anyone's realworld experience with
> the two.
>
> (someone mentioned a comparison in an earlier message, but I can't
> find it now)
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
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