Digital BW, The Print

A couple of weeks ago I called Colorbyte and asked if they had a 
Mac version of IP5 for the 2200 Epson and was told they did.  I 
was also told that it was for OS 9.X and they were working on a 
OS X version and would offer a free upgrade when it was 
released.  Then the trick was to find a printer.  Yesterday a friend 
of mine at a local camera store sold me hers, still in the box.  I 
have to admit to a few hours of pure excitement at the thrill of 
victory as I had spent quite a bit of time over the past few weeks 
trying to locate the printer and expected to wait a few more weeks 
due to the fact that all the dealers were saying the printers were 
stuck on a boat due to the shipping strike.  Now that I have the 
printer I went to order IP5 software only to find out that the Mac 
version is not shipping yet.  I inquired in to the difficulty of 
installing the Windows version as my scanner has its own PC 
running it.  A drag, yes, but doable.  I then asked about the 
profiles for the 2200 as there were none listed on the Colorbyte 
website.  They do have profiles for it but only for the photo black 
not the matte black.  I was then told that they couldn't make 
profiles for the matte black at this time.  Apparently it is some 
type of driver problem.  The salesman assured me that these 
issues would be solved but they were waiting for information 
from Epson.

Back to square one!  

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