Digital BW, The Print

They did indeed go back to the garbage profiles. I checked it in 4 
different viewers, including 2D and 3D views (where possible). Remember 
the LAB L of 3 for the gloss/luster papers that Epson reports, well the 
gamut view reports black as being ZERO. Too bad they went backwards. 
The latest profiles for the R1800 are at least believeable. And you are 
right, this is way to early to tell what is realy going on with these 
printers, I had just hoped for a more concrete performance spec from 
Epson.

On a side note, one person has tried the 4800 driver with the 4000. If 
I'm reading it correctly, the B/W driver is working, and using all 
three black inks. It might be as simple as exchanging the chips between 
the carts for the 4800 and the 4000 to use the new inks on your old 
printer. It also means that for a $500 RIP, you can do the same and 
more with the 4000. You can see this in the Epson forum at DPReview.