Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, sdmey4@a... 
wrote:
> In a message dated 5/3/2004 1:51:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
> pnweb@s... writes:
> Snip>
> > It's RIDICULOUS that 2200 owners 
> > should have to go out and buy a RIP, which is a professional tool 
> > designed for commercial print shops, just to make a decent black 
and 
> > white print.   This is like having to buy a hydraulic lift used 
in 
> > service stations just to change your cars' oil.
> > Snip>
> You want professional results? you gotta buy professional tools. 

Sure, but that's not what a RIP is for!

A RIP is designed for use in a professional, commercial print shop 
and most of its capabilities and features are to support that.  Its 
ability to make decent black and white prints is just a side effect.  
It's about 1% of its feature set.  Buying a RIP just to make black 
and white prints is like buying an expensive sports car because you 
like the leather seats and want to put them in your living room.

The fact is that the 2200 with the native inks is perfectly capable 
of making good, metamerism-free BW prints with the right software.  
That sw COULD be incorporated into the driver but for some reason 
Epson didn't.