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Newbie's luck printing B/W on 2200

2003-11-06 by Joe Thibodeau

I've been having a grand time playing with the B/W capabilities of 
the 2200. In fact I've been having better luck with B/W than with 
color. I've been able to get some rather nice prints out of the 2200 
with little tweaking of parameters. And I have been using the color 
mixer in PS7 to adjust the tonality of the print. It's still not 
silver but I am very satisfied with the results using UC inks. I've 
been doing some comparisons with samples from a company that prints 
using Cone Selenium and Sundance inks. I wish I had their sample 
image so I could see if I can match tonality, contrast, shadow and 
highlight detail one to one. Because I have different images the 
best I can do is make visual comparisons of similar areas in each 
image.

I am simply blown away by the Epson 2200. Of course I have never 
used the other Epson printers with B/W inksets so I have no 
comparison other than the samples from a service bureau.

I do have a question though. Obviously Epson includes profiles for 
their papers as a means to lock in that market. I want to use the 
Hanahmuele (did I spell that right?) Torchon 285 paper. Any tips for 
profiling this paper and other papers?

Thanks ... I am happy to be printing B/W in daylight ...

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