Digital BW, The Print

>I did not see it as any better than any of the other "workflows"
>suggested around the Epson driver with Epson's OEM inks.  What did 
>you find so "best" about it?  I saw pretty much the same amount of 
>color casts and metamerism as I see usually.

You saw pretty much the same? Are you sure you're following the 
workflow as outlined? The prints that result from my machine come out 
cool-neutral with good tonality and no color shifts across densities. 
There is some plugging up of shadows around 5%. And yes, there is 
some annoying metamerism but not nearly as much as, say, a color 
managed and profiled paper/printer/ink combo printed conventionally. 
Every method I've tried, with the exception of the Black Only method 
which to my eye is grainy, has color shifts. In other words 80% black 
will have a neutral tone but 50% black will go magenta and then 45% 
will be even more magenta then 30% will go neutral, and so on. This 
method doesn't result in that.

Methods I've tried include Photoshop correction curves, color managed 
profiles, black only, and conventional Epson printing (and probably 
more). I totally agree that specialized inks and/or a RIP will yield 
far superior results, but those require additional purchases and are 
not stock.