Digital BW, The Print

Bummer, and I just picked up my first 2200!

Scott

chipcarterdc wrote:

> Here's the text of that message, so that you don't have to join the 
> Epson 2200
> group to read it:
>
> "The June issue of Shutterbug magazine, pg159 has a 1/2 page article on
> 4 new Epson printers including a replacement for the 2200. They will
> have a new 8 color pigment ink set, including photo or matte black,
> light black, light light black, plus cyan, magenta, yellow, light cyan
> and light magenta. "The claim is that these pigment inks will
> significantly improve the printer's gray balance while eliminating
> color casts and dramatically reducing metamerism and bronzing." There
> will also be a new "advanced black and white print mode". The
> replacement for the 2200 is the R2400 and will sell for $849."
>
> I have several thoughts about this:
>
> (1) What are the other 3 new printers using the new inkset other than the
> R2400? I can see replacements for the 9600 and the 7600, but would the
> fourth printer be a replacement for the 4000?
>
> (2) Notice that it refers to photo OR matte black. That would indicate 
> that, like
> the 2200/7600/9600, and unlike the 4000, R1800 and R800, it can only have
> one of these inks loaded at a time. If true, that seems like a silly step
> backwards.
>
> (3) Why would the new printers be designated "Rxxxx" if they're not 
> using the
> R800/1800 inks?
>
> (4) Doesn't this leave the 4000 as kind of an orphan in the lineup? It 
> doesn't
> fit with the R800/1800, which use the gloss optimizer and red/blue 
> inks. It
> doesn't fit with the 2200/7600/9600, because it can hold photo and matte
> black at the same time. And it doesn't fit with the new printers either.
> UNLESS, as someone suggested, Epson shows some common sense and
> allows use of the new inks and "advanced B&W print mode" in the 4000 by a
> firmware/driver update -- since the 4000 already has 8 ink channels, this
> would seem sensible unless the new inks require a physically smaller drop
> size than the 4000's heads can produce. You would, of course be giving up
> the ability to print on glossy or mattte without swapping blacks 
> (assuming the
> Shutterbug article is accurate), which is probably the primary reason 
> you'd
> buy a 4000 instead of the larger 7600.
>
> Is the June issue of Shutterbug on newstands yet? I'd like to see the 
> article for
> myself.
>
>
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Schofield" <
> scho@m...> wrote:
> > Someone read the shutterbug article:
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/epson2200/message/6708
> > Three shades of black and driver control for B&W printing with the 3 
> inks.
> >
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "dfaprinting" <
> dfaprinting@y...>
> > wrote:
> > > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "steve_bye"
> > > <steve_bye@c...> wrote:
> > > > I put some of the text from Carl's link into a program that 
> identifies
> > > > languages and it chose Croatian or Serbian. Then I used a web page
> > > > translator (
> > > > 
> http://quickfound.net/webdev/language_translation_tools_index.html) 
> <http://quickfound.net/webdev/language_translation_tools_index.html%29> to
> > > > translate the article from both languages to English. The results
> > > > demonstrate that computer-generated translation technology has a
> ways
> > > to go.
> > > >
> > > > This definately looks like a new line of printers, and they 
> appear to
> > > be
> > > > targeting B&W printing with three B&W inks, though it is not 
> clear if
> > > they
> > > > are different densities or hues.
> > > >
> > > > Here is some of the cryptic text.
> > >
> > >
> > > I would be nice if the mixing is controlled in the hardware, and not
> > > the driver, but also user adjustable. If not that, then have all 
> three
> > > channels available to a RIP so that you gain back the user adjustment
> > > of the mixing.
> > >
> > > And if that B/W output comes through, can we all say... About time!
> > > What took so long?
>
>
>
>
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