Digital BW, The Print

A friend has a 2200 set up and running and he printed one of my images for 
me.  He has the photo black cartridge in and printed B&W images on Archival 
mat.  One straight black which is a sepia, very definitely sepia but nice, 
one with color inks that really changes colors from one light to another and 
has a plum color under incandescent light but not bad outside, and one with 
5% green mask that takes out some of the plum color.  The last two also take 
on a split toned look. They were all printed at 1440 dpi.  They are all 
smooth and compared to a piezotone WN tonalities look pretty good, maybe just 
a tad less contrast in some areas but the photo black ink isn't optimized for 
the archival mat as I understand it.  But very smooth, bandless and dotless 
to the eye.  

Does anyone who has the printer made a comparison between the Archival mat 
with photo black vs. photo mat....are both sepia?  

I was hoping that when he brought me the prints, I could say without question 
that I don't need this printer BUT I do need a printer for color and after 
seeing what he turned out in using it for the first few hours, I can't 
eliminate the 2200.  

Who is putting money on when we will have someone crack the code and set it 
up with new inks.
  
Billie


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