Digital BW, The Print

With the 
> 2200 and epson inks, are QTR images truly neutral?  I realize that 
you can tone images, 
> but are the results comparable to a dedicated quad inkset?  I am 
not looking for 
> perfection, but I would prefer the ramp from black to white 
showing no color casts or 
> crossovers.  

Don,

I have printed a bit with QTR and UC inks in the 2200. The results 
were light years better than trying to get grayscale prints without 
a RIP like QTR but still fell short in two areas in my opinion. 
There was some barely noticeable color crossover throughout the 
middle values in the neutral prints and the dither pattern was still 
too apparent for my tastes in the highlights. 

I bought a 1280 with the current rebate and loaded UT2 inks from MIS 
on it that work well with no noticeable color crossover and an 
acceptably smooth dither pattern (now that I got a replacement for 
some bad carts). I have read a few posts complaining about color 
crossover with UT2 inks but maybe my eyes haven't been sensitized 
enough to pick up on it. I imagine the non-variable tone inksets 
like UT-FS and UT-FSN are probably the most stable in terms of color 
casts or cross over.

Jim