Digital BW, The Print

OK....here is a weird thing.

The profile "proofing semimatte" works well with epson premium 
semi-matte. I dont know if that profile actually goes with that paper 
though. The weird thing is that when you choose the media "proofing 
semimatte" in the driver, the B/W mode is disabled with the Pk cart in, 
just like it is when you choose EEM as media. If you send a mono image 
thru as if it were color, all is fine. Just for grins I chose Premium 
semi as the the media, and everything was fine too. On my 1280, that 
would have been a disaster. So when printing on epson premium 
semimatte, you can choose the media "premium semigloss, and then you 
can access the B/W mode in the driver, and all works well.
It seems like the printer is pretty bullet proof, and very forgiving. 
That was a surprise.
Epson premium semimatte is a real nice paper with the 2400. The gloss 
dif, and general feel and vib, is nicer than EPG or EGSG......not 
plasticy, and the image quality is great too.

so now I would rate my papers so far like this:

1) Epson premium semimatte, for color and B/W. Especially for people 
who "hate" RC papers

2) espon Premium Semi gloss, for color or BW. Feels more like plasic, 
looks very good

3) eson premium glossy.....looks great, with a pronounced gloss. Both 
BW and color

but for BW, Kirkland is as good as the Semimatte, with much less gloss 
than epson Premium Glossy, and heavier in weight that semimatte.

all of these work great every time with no dialing in and wasting paper 
or ink. Thats pretty cool right there......

For what it's worth, this is the best experience I have had with 
getting a new system going. I went crazy with my 1200 with lyson quads, 
the lyson SG's. Spent a lot of time getting my 1280 and UT2's to work, 
and still had to always make several test prints ending with a good 
one. I think that these are as good as my best prints from UT2 inks, 
and with about 1/10 the effort. The printer is massively faster than 
the 1280, moving about 3/16th of an inch on every pass, with high speed 
checked. I have not noticed a diference with high speed off or on 
yet.......DM