Digital BW, The Print

Sean and Anders,
I have a 2200 and I spent a long time producing custom profiles for 
it thinking that I might improve on the supplied paper profiles. 
After many hours my conclusion was that mine were very little 
different from Epsons, assuming that you are using their papers. I 
personally have not found a paper any better for color work than 
Epson. B/W is of course a entirely diffent matter. Some kind of RIP 
is the way to go with the 2200, QTR is wonderful is you have a Mac 
or Linux system. If not and you are PC bound it's going to cost you 
about $500 for a PC rip. The good news is that some of the Rips can 
be used for multiple printers.

Regards,

Sierra Gold

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Anders Jonsson 
<archivalinkjet@y...> wrote:
> Sean,
> I am located in Portland and I used to work for ProPhoto in the 
digital department selling and supporting digital capturing and 
printing eqipment. I can help you out with questions on b/w 
printing. Wait with the 3200 scanner since a newer model is coming 
out with higher dpi and same price, 4800, and it scans a full 
8x10.Iwould go for the 2200 and get custom profiles made. But the 
2200, even with PhotoBlack inks, does not print as well as the 1280 
on the glossy media. 2200 is for matte and fine art paper with Matte 
Black, that is where it is the best. The 1280 is a perfect marrige 
with Carbon inks though.
>  
> Thank you,
> Anders
>  
>  
> 
> t.net> wrote:
>   I'm thinking about jumping to a digital output.   Currently 
looking at
> 1280 and a 3200 scanner.   Are there any members in the Portland, 
OR
> area I can contact and look at some physical prints from the 1280 
or
> 2200?  I am having a hard time imagining the final result.
> 
> Sean
> 
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> http://www.sbphoto.net
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