Digital BW, The Print

At 12:12 AM 1/21/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>In the current issue of MacWorld Magazine, they say the Epson 2200
>printer is the finest printer on the
>market, and nothing even comes close. (They're speaking of desktop printers)
>It also says that you can get perfectly neutral black and white prints
>with the printer.  Do they know something we don't?


1.  MacWorld is a computer magazine; not a photography
magazine.   They are out of their league when talking about
this topic.

2.  But you CAN get perfectly neutral black and white
prints with the 2200, FOR A GIVEN VIEWING LIGHT.
The 2200's problem isn't neutral black and white; it's
metamerism.   I have no trouble getting neutral black
and white prints with my 2200 as long as I know what
light (incandescent, cold fluorescent, warm
fluorescent, open sky, no sun, or direct sun) I'm going
to be viewing the print under.

In a message dated 1/20/2003 6:13:54 PM Central Standard Time, 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com writes:

> Jerry 
> Olson <jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> >In the current issue of MacWorld Magazine, they say the Epson 
> >2200 printer is the finest printer on the market, and nothing 
> >even comes close. (They're speaking of desktop printers)
> >It also says that you can get perfectly neutral black and white 
> >prints with the printer.  Do they know something we don't?
> 
> In a word, no. But I tend to be underwhelmed at most computer 
> magazines' purported knowledge of things photographic.
> 
> - Barrett
> 

When one cannot dispute using facts, just shoot the messenger....typical.

Jerry in Houston


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--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, 
glewis4457@a... wrote:
> In a message dated 1/20/2003 6:13:54 PM Central Standard 
Time, 
> DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com writes:
> 
> > Jerry 
> > Olson <jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> > >In the current issue of MacWorld Magazine, they say the 
> > >Epson 2200 printer is the finest printer on the market, and 
> > >nothing even comes close. (They're speaking of desktop 
> > >printers) It also says that you can get perfectly neutral black 
> > >and white prints with the printer.  Do they know something 
> > >we don't?
> > 
> >In a word, no. But I tend to be underwhelmed at most 
> >computer magazines' purported knowledge of things 
> >photographic.
> > 
> > - Barrett
> > 
> 
> When one cannot dispute using facts, just shoot the 
> messenger....typical.
> 
> Jerry in Houston

Ouch.

On the basis that MacWorld and other computer magazines 
position themselves as more than mere "messengers" of 
information, criticism of their follow-through in product reviews is 
warranted, even if my remark may have been somewhat 
scattershot. (Wayne Cosshall makes a more comprehensive 
case in his post).

- Barrett