Digital BW, The Print

Hello Houston,
Your query peaked my interest because I experimented with the latest 2200
driver (5.4a) from Epson yesterday and found that it is unacceptable for
printing B&W prints. It causes the prints to come out with a terrible light
cyan colour cast. I tried all permutations of the choices with this driver
only to uninstall it and go back to Version 5.31 which makes some very
acceptable B&W prints on Epson Enhanced Matte paper with Epson Matte Black
ink using Carl Schofield's method from the Luminous Landscape site.
In the 5.4 software version, I could not choose "Photo-realistic" mode and
this is the key to Schofield's workflow? The choice just isn't there. In
5.31 it is there and works fine. Thinking I'd pooched the download,and a
glutton for punishment, I re-downloaded, only to get the same results. I
won't go into how I also didn't like what the 5.4 version did to my colour
prints. Suffice it to say that the colours got really 'Technicolor and not
what I expected.
All in all the 5.31 software works very well for me so I'll keep it
installed. Just an experience worth noting. I am cross posting to the Epson
2000 list since it is where most 2200 issues are raised.
Sincerely,
Owen


Owen Evans
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