Digital BW, The Print

Douglas--
I have found the the "darker" setting matches the screen very 
accurately with a Soft Proof view set to "Preseve Numbers" and a dot 
gain of 25-30%.  So this would be one reason to use it.

On sending an RGB file through with a profile, my experience with the 
2400 is that color management from PS does not work with the ABW 
driver.  Photoshop is, of course, adjusting the numbers it sends, but 
not in a way useful to the ABW mode.  Or so I think.  Epson tells me 
that supplied profiles *are* for use with ABW, but they don't say how 
(don't appear to really understand any of it) and I haven't figured 
out a useful flow using them.

I continue to be interested in others' experience with this printer.

Good wishes,
Walt  

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Douglas meeuwsen 
<lipshurt@m...> wrote:
> Hello again...I have been assembling some album books of Prints 
that I 
> have been stockpiling for a while, which were made on my 1280 with 
UT2, 
> on several different papers, Photo rag, German etching, Kirkland 
etc, 
> .......and after getting the 2400, I just had to redo some of the 
> better images, and There really is a significant difference i the 
> quality, especially on images that were problematic on the other 
> printer. One thing that baffles me is why epson has the default 
setting 
> at "darker" as opposed to "dark" or "normal". I find that "normal" 
> matches my monitor the best, and also matches the output of an RGB 
file 
> in mono, sent thru with a profile.
> 
> Does anyone think that "dark" or "darker" works best for them?
> 
> I have been printing only with photo black, on kirkland paper for 
B/W 
> prints. They look very much in the same ballpark as my 
friends "ilford 
> glossy grade 4 prints"