Digital BW, The Print

> The initial prints on my 2200 look great or I should say "looked"
> great until I laid some out on the bed in front of the window. I had
> been looking at them straight on but lying on the bed and seeing 
> them
> at an angle I noticed the blacks looked posterized or solarized or
> something. It was like you could see the layers as if they were 
> raised a little higher than the colors or were wet. Very disturbing.

This is called bronzing and it's a well-known problem with the 
2200.    Basically the 2200 can't do glossy printing half as well as 
the average printer costing 1/5th as much, to save its expensive 
little life.

It's only marginally better on semigloss.   Basically the 2200 should 
be thought of as a matte-paper printer, only.

There's a lot of things I like about the 2200 - e.g., its flat feed 
system so I can print on all kinds of wacko materials.   But what 
really pisses me off about it is that the things I DON'T like are all 
things we had to find out AFTER we bought it.   Epson actually 
PROMOTED it as a black-and-white printer, out-of-the-box, and by 
offering glossy paper for it and having a "photo-black" (in addition 
to a matte-black) ink they certainly created the impression that it 
could be used for glossy printing.  

Deliberately misleading and deceptive tactics like that really show 
what a dishonest company Epson is.   I really wish some company would 
offer us an alternative.