Digital BW, The Print

Thanks for all the below.
I took me some time to find the Drycreekphoto instruction : it's in 
fact in the download.

Reading it carefully I assume your refer to the 1290 advise applied 
to the 2200 driver. The annoyance with the 1800 is that you don't 
have a so-called color control to set to automatic. You have Epson 
calibration and can set either "Standard Epson" (which maybe the one) 
something I'll translate in "Bright/lively Color Epson" and "Adobe 
RV" (which also could be a second option).

I'll look a bit more on the web to find the appropriate trick.

I'd be reluctant to lose gamut for color printing but it's a 
compromise between saturation and details (vs smudging which I 
confirm is an issue on a 1800). I believe I'll go for...smudging up 
to the very last acceptable point. I often try to use relative 
rending is out-of-gamut colors are not plenty and thus editable. This 
gives some extra saturation that I lose with perceptual. I think the 
way it is BW printing is about fine contrast while color printing is 
about saturation and fine hue.

Regarding Ergosoft the one you refer to is probably Posterprint : I 
have not seen that the 4800 is supported but vers. 11.0.4.2219 seems 
to support the Pulse. It looks like for the 17" 4800 the price with 
no postscrip is about $850. Meanwhile Epson apparently refers in the 
pro 4800 (should I feel it's not for me ?) to Colorburst ... As for 
Evolution I couldn't identify neither the price nor if there's a 
profiling ability.

Well I also take for granted your information that all is needed with 
the 4800 is Qimage to deliver quality... 

I'll keep on looking for more information on the web.
Thanks for your input.

Olivier