Digital BW, The Print

There have been quite a few posts on the new R2400 printer revolving 
around whether to use color management or not when using the 
Advanced B&W feature of the driver. I just got mine yesterday and 
read the manual which really did not address this issue so I thought 
I would call Epson and share their tech support answer with you all.

They told me that 90% of users are finding that using NO color 
management before sending the file (RGB or Grayscale) to ABW is the 
best way to go, but that there is a minority that ARE using color 
management before sending the file and like that better. Their 
advice is that one should experiment with the two methods to see 
which you like better and that there is NO ONE RIGHT ANSWER. He said 
results are "in the eyes of the beholder". They advise the no color 
management method as a starting point and see if you like the 
results.

I also asked them if there will be any difference between "no color 
management to AWB" and simply "using color management and skipping 
the AWB". Again he said people are having different experiences and 
they do not state that there is a right way but recommend using the 
ABW method as a starting point.

Interesting! So hopefully we can get lots of discussion going on 
what people are seeing with all the above methods for B&W printing 
using the R2400.

Cheers