Digital BW, The Print

Lynne

Back to the original question.  Yes you can get great B&W with the Epson
2200 printer that you OWN TODAY.  A custom profile will improve the colour
output but will do little for your black and white.  I custom profile my
printer with the Gretag Macbeth Eye-One.  A B&W print with a profiled
21/2200 using the Epson driver will still exhibit metamerism.  The good news
is that there exist simple means of getting rid of this problem WITHOUT
spending a lot of additional money.  Start with Roy¹s QTR and your existing
inks.  It costs nothing but a little time to give it a go.  I can tell you
that the difference between QTR and the Epson driver is night and day.  The
principal reason is that QTR has dedicated control over the individual inks,
balancing light magenta and light cyan evenly and not using any yellow.

If that doesn¹t do it for you then you are into different inks and
dedicating your printer to B&W eg the new UT7 inks developed by Paul Roark.

Give it a whirl

Steve


From: "Scott Graham" <gebilwil@...>


<The solution is a custom profile for your paper.>

<Or if you can afford a 4000, I highly recommend it.>
Scott

PS:  you could also go black only, but I consider than an inferior
compromise, and the
Epson black is a bit warm.


  --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Lynne Siler"
<lhsiler@b...> 
wrote:
> I tried using a Epson 1270 with Lyson quad blacks last year, and the prints
> started fading within months! So I happily bought the 2200 and am happy for
> the most part, but cannot seem to get consistent results when printing black
> and white images. I've thought about buying  another 2200 and looking into
> 3rd party inks again, but after getting burned by the  Lyson inks I'm not sure
> where to go with this. What are most of you doing for nice B&W prints?  I'm
> using epson velvet for most prints and print mostly portraits.
> 
> Thanks,
> Lynne Siler






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