Digital BW, The Print

Bronzing is the current trade-off for the longevity gains of pigment inks.
I am sure it is being worked on and results from the R800 leading to the new
A3+ version suggest that significant progress has been made.  As for the
competition, there is plenty out there but none that is as good as Epson....


> From: Peter Nelson <pnweb@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 18:04:43 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: What is this??!!
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>> 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.
>