Digital BW, The Print

Hi Scott,

>>"I think this opens the K2 and other 3 - 4 drop size
>>Epson printer bases to this workflow."

>Would that include the 4800..?

I suspect so.  It's possible the 4880 has a drop size that is a bit smaller
than the 2200, but I think they are very close.

By the way, tonight I put an Eboni-7 inkset into the 2200 and drove it with
the Epson driver.  With a Photoshop image adjustment curve embedded in an
ICC with Create ICC-RGB, this makes a "color managed" workflow that prints
super smooth at 1440 -- rather faster than QTR at 2880.  The print tone on
my target paper -- Premier Art Smooth BW -- was very close to what I'm
getting on the 7500.  Lab B peaked at +1 at 45% and then dropped
continuously to dead neutral at the black point.  So, it looks like the
modern printers can come very close to matching the 7500 tones.  A color
managed (Create ICC), Epson driver workflow is a nice alternative for this
relatively neutral 100% carbon approach.  This alternative should be
available on all of the modern Epson printers.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com