Digital BW, The Print

> From: sanfo2003 [mailto:SandyCornelius@...]
>
> Printed some files and results were excellent, and I mean fine art
> quality excellent. Metamerism was less than 10% of that on my 2200.
> You have to really know what you're looking for to even see it, in
> fact I had to rapidly move the print back and forth between daylight
> and tungsten to see it. You could sell prints from this printer at an
> outdoor venue (art fair) and be confident that the print will appear
> the same when taken home and viewed under incandescent lighting; that
> is, if you were shown the print cold in either daylight or tungsten
> you would not see any metamerism, in my opinion.
>
> If it sounds like I'm enthusiastic about this printer, well I am, and
> I haven't even printed color yet with the gloss optimizer. Clearly
> the downside of the printer is its small size. But here we have a
> printer that prints archival fine art quality BW out of the box,
> prints color glossy without bronzing (gloss optimizer), has increased
> gamut, no need to swap out cartridges when switching between photo
> and matte black inks, and I can drive down to the local store to get
> more ink when I need it (major manufacturer distribution).

How's the grain in light areas, compared to the 2200? I'm curious about this
since there are no light inks, only a very small dot size.

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