Digital BW, The Print

I have just set up a digital darkroom which includes an Epson 2200 
printer. So far I have only used the premium glossy paper. My scans 
are of high res B&W images. I am pleased with the detail in the 
subsequent prints,however ALL the prints are too warm( almost sepia), 
especially under tungsten light. In sunlight they look significantly 
better, but remain somewhat too warm.I have tried about every 
different setting in the printer options with no significant 
improvement. Does anyone have a good solution for this? Does the 
matte black ink and matte paper give similar results? 
Thanks

Epson now admits they have a magenta shift problem with this printer. You 
will see much discussion in these forums about how people have gone about 
to mitigate it.  If you are working in color, you can try to download the George 
Lepp profiles. Some have had luck with Epson's grey balancer software. 
Epson tells me it doesn't work with the 2200 because of the firmware in the 
printer. They do market a $200 postscript rip that is supposed to help. Too bad 
they didn't tell us this when they marketed the printer to pros in the first place 
as being capable of high level black and white!

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "digikdm <
monroekd@h...>" <monroekd@h...> wrote:

> I have just set up a digital darkroom which includes an Epson 2200 
> printer. So far I have only used the premium glossy paper. My scans 
> are of high res B&W images. I am pleased with the detail in the 
> subsequent prints,however ALL the prints are too warm( almost sepia), 
> especially under tungsten light. In sunlight they look significantly 
> better, but remain somewhat too warm.I have tried about every 
> different setting in the printer options with no significant 
> improvement. Does anyone have a good solution for this? Does the 
> matte black ink and matte paper give similar results? 
> Thanks

In my experience, the GIMP-PRINT drivers solve the magenta cast issue.

On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 12:47 PM, johnkaplan 
<kaplan@...> wrote:

> Epson now admits they have a magenta shift problem with this printer. 

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what is a GIMP-PRINT driver?

James Downs <silvergull@...> wrote:
> In my experience, the GIMP-PRINT drivers solve the
> magenta cast issue.
> 
> On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 12:47 PM, johnkaplan
> 
> <kaplan@...> wrote:
> 
> > Epson now admits they have a magenta shift problem
> with this printer. 
> 
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> 
> 


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Go to: https://sourceforge.net Click on item #7 in the "most frequent" 
list. GIMP-PRINT is an open source print driver family that takes 
advantage of the fact that Mac OS 10.2.XXX is UNIX at heart. Plus it is 
free; and it works well.

Cheers, Jim

On Saturday, February 1, 2003, at 11:19 PM, john smith wrote:

> what is a GIMP-PRINT driver?
>
> James Downs <silvergull@...> wrote:
> > In my experience, the GIMP-PRINT drivers solve the
> > magenta cast issue.
> >
> > On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 12:47 PM, johnkaplan
> >
> > <kaplan@...> wrote:
> >
> > > Epson now admits they have a magenta shift problem
> > with this printer.
>  thread changes remember to change the subject header.

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