Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
> Just difficult to swap inks around with a CFS eg from matte black to
photo
> black (Epson MK to Eboni etc).  What system are you on, Mac or PC? 
I can
> print 2880 ppi to matte paper (OS-X, 2100 driver).  Not sure what
you mean
> about the profiles but I think BO is intended to be Same as Source.
> 
> 
I am using PC. When you install the 2100 driver it puts a default
profile EE_177 into the printer properties/colour management tab.
Windows uses this for general printing and usually it does not
interfere with Photoshop & printing profiles (although sometimes it
can and ends up double profiling!). When I installed the 2200 driver
it has a similar windows profile EE123_1 and 6 other Epson profiles
like "SP2200 Enhanced Matte" of which SP2200 Watercolor PK is the
default profile! Again this has nothing to do with selecting profiles
in PS. I have just removed those profiles from the properties (they
are still available to PS) and printed again. My dark shadows have
gone and I have to say the print is superb - exactly as on the screen
(I am very happy indeed!) I cannot understand why the two drivers are
so radically different. Why does the UK driver not allow 2880dpi with
Archival Matte when the US driver does. It is very odd.