Digital BW, The Print

Hello Julio,

>Anyone out there with experience of printing B&W with the 2400 and an
>Imageprint RIP? Any improvement from the the 2200 with the same RIP?

It may be that nobody has replied to this because nobody is using IP
with a 2400.  The 2400 is popular mainly for two reasons: the K3 inks
and it's ABW driver which is essentially a simple built in RIP.  The
only advantage of using a 3rd party RIP would be to use K3 inks
without the Yellow (or perhaps some other sophisticated
manipulations).  I think there have been a few posts over the past
couple of years from people doing that with QTR, but my impression is
that most 2400 users are using ABW mode.

I think any improvement in a 2400 over a 2200 with IP would have to
come from the K3 ink (3 blacks, less bronzing on glossy papers, less
metamerism, better fade resistance).  If someone were to use 3rd party
inks and a 3rd party RIP there would be no advantage to a 2400.  Might
as well pay less and use an 1800.

I hope this helps.


Regards,
Clayton


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