Digital BW, The Print

>I just printed out a couple of B&W's on my newly purchased R220 along 
>with the MIS UT-R2 neutral inkset. The nozzle check test patterns are 
>all good. The problem I am seeing is that the printouts appear very 
>gainy ...

> Softproof on simulating QTR-R220_EHM_MHW_G22_std_cc-o 

I assume you're using View>Proof Setup>Custom ...

>(this is also the same icc I am using as my printer profile)
>Photoshop determine colors followed by printer profile as above stated

>Epson driver set to off no color management 

The profile name ending in "CC-0" means that the profile was made with the
driver set to Color Controls, but with the sliders at the default, "0"
position.

> & have tried with Gamma 2.2 using the epson driver as the backend

OK, this sounds like you've tried that also.

I, frankly, can't see any other setting that would cause a problem.

I assume the files you're printing are grayscale and not RGB.  The driver
should be the standard Epson driver from their disk.  The drivers in Windows
or for other OS's may not be the real thing.

Right now, nothing else comes to mind.  The R2 prints should be much
smoother than the BO prints.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com