Digital BW, The Print

There are now more reviews of the R800:

http://www.redrivercatalog.com/infocenter/epsonr800.htm

http://www.photo-i.co.uk/

A quote from the last (page 2):
>The print dot is almost invisible even under high magnification.
If this were a 35mm film shot then the film grain would be larger
than the print dot. The printer does not apply any sharpening to
the image so what you see here is more or less what you get.<

Pity that there's no BO test included in the last review. The 1.5
picolitre droplet asks for a test like that.  Normal B&W (with
composite greys) isn't at the level of the Ultrachrome models
with the light grey. Looks like a good test in total though.

Now we have to wait for the wide format model.

Ernst

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Mike Botelho" <mfractl@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 11:19 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: The Epson R800 & B&W


|
| OK, to follow up on my own post, I found this comment from
someone
| who actually owns the PX-G900, which is the Japanese equivalent
of
| the R800 I mentioned:
|
|
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1013&message=6402074
|
| One comment is hardly conclusive, but it at least supports my
| suspicion that B&W might be improved.  This person indicated
B&W
| coparable to a 2200 with IP (no metamerism).  Though he did
seem to
| be printing in color, not BO as I was talking about.
|
| Anyway, that's enough about printers that aren't available yet.
Back
| to figuring out what I'm going to print with in the present.
|
| Mike