Digital BW, The Print

If you can find an Epson 1160 (watch the lists), get it, and start 
with MIS grayscale inks along with Moab or Red river paper; you will 
be thrilled with the results, but there is a learning curve to 
master the system. (Hint; start with black-only, then the Epson 
driver, then move to the Roark curves...but to make those curves 
work, you need to develop transfer curves for each curve/paper 
combo.) I would vote then for the 1280 as a second printer...you can 
then decide to make your 1160 color and black-only, or the 1280 as 
that.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "annekersaway" 
<annekersaway@y...> wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Kathy Ryan" 
> <kt.ryan@v...> wrote:
> > I currently have an Epson RX500 all-in-one that I use to print 
my 
> photos. They are pretty good but I want better and bigger. I would 
> like to print up to 11x14 which is what my preferred size was in 
the 
> wet darkroom. And I would like to get rid of, or at least control, 
> the slight color cast I get on the RX500 prints.
> 
> If I were you (and I'm in the same boat - I want a large format 
> printer), I'd wait.
> 
> Epson's done quite a bit in the new R800 printer.  It begs for a 
> wide carriage version.  With the recent price cuts on the 1280, 
and 
> Christmas buying season fast approaching, I think a new printer is 
> in the wings.  I don't think the 4000 is it.
> 
> I have NO inside information to base this speculation on.  Just an 
> educate guess on my part.
> 
> Until then, work on color management to clear up the color cast in 
> the RX500.  That's a good printer (same print engine as the rest 
of 
> the R printers, IIRC).  When was the last time you profiled your 
> monitor?  Does your printer profile match your inks and papers 
> you're using?  You'll be fighting the same battle with any 
printer, 
> so might as well practice on the RX500 while you wait for the next 
> generation large format home inkjet.
> 
> Anne