Digital BW, The Print

After over three years printing Piezography on an Epson 1160, I just 
started working with Image Print and an Epson 2200 with my G4 Mac and 
OS 10.2.

As I have always printed Jon Cone's " Proof of Peizography "  grey 
scale file to see how a paper and ink combination works, I printed the 
file with the 2200 and IP for comparison on Archival Matte.

With the naked eye I see dots in the highlights along the 1 percent to 
5 percent bar, and even into the 10 or 15  percent bar on top. They are 
subtle, I have to stick my nose into the print to see them, but there 
are there. When I compare the same file printed on AM and Piezo, the 
bars a completely dot less and smooth as a baby's bottom.

Are the highlight dots of ink normal on Image Print ? Am I doing 
something wrong ? Am I fair comparing it to Piezo ?

Reprinting my old Peizo files with Image Print, I feel my results are 
just as good, except the faint dots in the highlights.

BTW, the same test file gives me good separation from 90 to 96 percent 
black, and I can just make out the 98 percent ring from the 100.

Working with Photo Matte Black ink, Color Mgmt > bitmap > Grey Gamma 
1.8 and profile ep2200mk_b_grey-archmatt2880 .

Thanks for the help !


Tom Salyer
Miami
www.tomsalyer.com