Digital BW, The Print

At 21:19 -0500 17.12.2003, Peter Palmieri wrote:
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>Many months ago a lot of hours, paper and ink were spent using the 
>Epson RIP for the 2200 for B&W printing. Even though enumerable 
>settings were tried, a first class B&W print was not achieved. 
>Different papers were used along with photo black and matte black 
>ink. Finally matte black ink with Epson's Enhanced Matte paper were 
>adopted as the constants. Even though these endeavors were not 
>successful, I thought that another try might be worthwhile. I kept 
>the settings that produced the most acceptable B&W. However the 
>"most acceptable" prints were not really worthy of serious 
>consideration and further trials as it became too frustrating.

Epson Stylus RIP is a RIP for prepress  purposes which should help to 
print PostScript and PDF files to Epson printers. Nothing more. To 
use it for such sensitive color work as BW print outs are is not it's 
goal, I'm affraid.

Martin Sluka
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