Digital BW, The Print

I'd like to see how it performs with Enhanced Matt or Velvet F/A paper
in B&W.  I'm sitting on the fence with a 2200.

Robert Ades

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Douglas meeuwsen
<lipshurt@m...> wrote:
> Well, I just did some test prints, (all on the sheets of premium glossy 
> that came with the machine), and every single one of them was what I 
> would call excellent. I tried all the diferent color management systems 
> like icc profiles, colorsync, sliders, and advanced BW. Every single 
> print was great. The color matched my powerbook screen exactly on all 
> the systems. I could tell no diference really. The epson icc profile 
> looked exactly like the sliders a center with the "vivid" setting. The 
> others were the same colors except just a little less saturation. Just 
> barely diferent. The advance BW mode really works. Kind of spooky to 
> get perfect neutral, cool, or warm, or sepia tones without wasteing 5 
> or six sheets. The cool setting is very subtle. If you put it next to 
> the neutral print, you might say the neutral one is "warm". The "warm 
> setting is more obvious, but very nice. The sepia is nice too, and I 
> generally dont like sepia too much.
> Like i said, so far i have only tried Premium glossy, which usually is 
> too glossy for me, but these look pretty nice. There is no bronzing at 
> all, but there is a teensy bit of gloss diferential in the highlights. 
> The highlights are a bit more dull. That is weird compared to MIS 
> UT2/glop, where the highlights are are more glossy. The "highlight 
> shift" button does not seem to do anything so far, with my test print.
> 
> now I just need to get some profiles for my other papers from somewhere
> 
> I hope this printer doesn't take all the fun out of printing!