Digital BW, The Print

> From: julie stapen [mailto:jsstapen@...]
>
> Thank you so much for your time and expertise in
> responding to my question. I appreciate your help so
> much. I am new at this, willing to spend the money,
> but don't know what an RIP like image-print is....
> Would you mind elaborating on that... What it is and
> where I could get something like that?

It's a standalone program that prints without going through the standard
Epson driver, so it has its own algorithms for laying down the dots.
ImagePrint (www.colorbytesoftware.com) has a B&W mode, with its own
proprietary profiles, that uses mostly black ink (and I presume light
black), mixing in only enough color ink to smooth out the grain and
eliminate the brown cast. It avoids using the yellow ink, which is reputedly
responsible for most of the 2200's metamerism. The result is a dead perfect
grayscale, for $500.

My only complaint about them is that they want $500 for each printer you
want to use (much more for large format), so I think that puts it decisively
into the pro category, not of much interest to most hobbyists.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...