Digital BW, The Print

Just jumped on a great opportunity.
I am about to order the 4000 from our local Epson Pro dealer.
They have just received their demo model which I went to have a look 
at today (it's huge, built like a safe though).  I was quite honest 
that I want to use it predominantly for B&W but am not prepared to 
stump up for a RIP.  They will have their training down in London 
with Epson tomorrow and I have left them with two UT2 prints - one 
carbon print on Epson Semi-Gloss and one neutral print on Epson 
Archival Matt - I have provided both images on a CD.  They have 
offered to use these as prints during the demo's and training.  I 
can't wait to see how close the actual Epson team will get to 
reproducing this output.
I for one was not blown away by the 7600 + IP5.6 altough I've only 
seen a couple of samples.
I will obviously post back on how things go in the next couple of 
days.

regards
Steve