Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 10/19/06 8:15:35 AM, bb_nardi@... writes:


> I have a  Epson 2000P Printer sitting around, would like to use just
> for B&W. Does any know of any good solution, and is it worth it. Thanks
> for any imput.
> 

The original drivers for the 2000p used color rich blends for gray 
components, causing lots of metamerism under differing light sources, so (the only time 
I can recall Epson making significant driver changes for a released printer 
model) a new driver was produced which used black ink for dark gray components, 
and for medium gray components as well. This reduced metamerism, at the cost 
of grainier prints (the dot size on the 2000p is fairly large). For replacing 
the inks with a gray inkset, having the black ink (no matter who's black ink it 
is) used for most of the grays is not ideal. So you would actually be best 
off with the original driver... which is only available from early 2000p CDs at 
this point, and may not function with newer OSes. With the later driver, this 
is not going to be a very impressing B&W printer unless you use a RIP with it, 
and define a more appropriate gray generation scheme than the one the driver 
uses. Once you move to non-OEM inks, the 2000p offers no advantage over the 
older 1280, and is significantly slower.

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Unit
Datacolor Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com


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