Digital BW, The Print

Epson America has the 2200 RIP in stock now and I ordered one. 
Supposed to be here Thursday. Hopefully I'll be able to make a post 
this weekend concerning greyscale performance.

> Epson America has the 2200 RIP in stock now and I ordered one. 
> Supposed to be here Thursday. Hopefully I'll be able to make a post 
> this weekend concerning greyscale performance.

Are you getting it mainly to see if it delivers the holy grail of
easy metamerism-free B&W printing on the Epson 2200 using the
OEM UltraChrome inks ?   Here's hoping ...

If it delivers, it could be argued that Epson is asking us to spend
$200 to get what was strongly implied would be achievable "out of the
box" from the 2200 ...

John

Hi, John-

Well, I hope it works.

Heck. After Nikon charges $3500-4500 for a digital camera, THEN wants
another $100 for "oh, yeah, if you want to convert those RAW files you just
shot" software, THIS would be cheap.  <BGGG>

Seth

=From: johngeyles <jge@...> [mailto:jge@...] 
=Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Epson 2200 RIP
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=If it delivers, it could be argued that Epson is asking us to 
=spend $200 to get what was strongly implied would be 
=achievable "out of the box" from the 2200 ...
=
=John
=

Hi, John-

Well, I hope it works.

Heck. After Nikon charges $3500-4500 for a digital camera, THEN wants
another $100 for "oh, yeah, if you want to convert those RAW files you just
shot" software, THIS would be cheap.  <BGGG>

Seth

=From: johngeyles <jge@...> [mailto:jge@...] 
=Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Epson 2200 RIP
=
=
=
=If it delivers, it could be argued that Epson is asking us to 
=spend $200 to get what was strongly implied would be 
=achievable "out of the box" from the 2200 ...
=
=John
=

Does anyone use the Epson RIP PRO Software for the 2200?  Any 
advantages/dissadvantages?  Does it require a separate PC as the RIP?

Thanks,
Duncan Staples