Digital BW, The Print

Hello all

I'm a new owner of an Epson 2100/2200 and like most of you, I'm quite unhappy with the Black and White prints it produces. I have tried Black Only printing with the standard matte black ink but find it's more brown than black. I was wondering if there is an alternative black ink cartridge on the market which produces a richer black than the Epson product and if so, are there any special tricks in producing Black only prints. Thanks in advance - Bruce

 

Bruce McKean

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Check previous posts on Ink Jet Control (IJC) or Open Print Maker.
Currently these are Mac only options but they allow you to control
individual channels in your 2200 so that you can use light black and black
as well as small amounts of cyan and magenta to get more neutral prints.  It
gives far superior prints to the black only option both in terms output
quality and tone.

A free option, if you are on MacOS X or Linux is the QuadtoneRIP.  This uses
GIMP Print as the driver and allows people to build in curves at the driver
level and also control metamerism by eliminating yellow, but there hasn't
been a lot of development done with the 2200...but once again there are
posts in the archives.

Another more expensive Mac or Windows option is the Imageprint RIP
(www.colorbytesoftware.com) which also eliminates the yellow ink (the source
of metamerism) and gives neutral prints.  There are many posts on Imageprint
(search under Imageprint or IP or IP5).

You may also find the recent thread "B&W on Epson 2200 -- A Summary"
helpful.

Robert

On 4/29/03 5:28 AM, "all ozzie" <allozzie@...> wrote:

> Hello all
> 
> I'm a new owner of an Epson 2100/2200 and like most of you, I'm quite unhappy
> with the Black and White prints it produces. I have tried Black Only printing
> with the standard matte black ink but find it's more brown than black. I was
> wondering if there is an alternative black ink cartridge on the market which
> produces a richer black than the Epson product and if so, are there any
> special tricks in producing Black only prints. Thanks in advance - Bruce
> 
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> 
> Bruce McKean
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Hi Bruce-

I just started with my 2200 2 weeks ago.

I settled on Image Print 5.5...it is expensive but IMHO worth it 
since it gives you hundreds of profiles for color and BW.

Before you go there, you might want to go through the hassle of 
trying other stuff... George Lepp has free profiles on his site for 
Epson 2100/2200, PictoRico has profiles for all of their papers 
(these are excellent papers and excellent profiles), there is the 
Epson RIP (which I have not tried and have not heard great things 
about...it is $200).

The Image Print is $495 for the desktop version (missing a few 
features from the full version). There is no trial copy available any 
more but there is a no questions asked 30 day return for full refund 
policy...the pricing is weird (to my way of thinking)it can be 
networkded to an unlimited number of CPUs but used on only one 
printer (dongle protected) with reduced prices for more lisences.

There is a yahoo group for Image Print: 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ImagePrint/?yguid=109982305

BTW, this is NOT perfect software by any means, but it does work once 
you learn how to deal with the User Interface (which is really the 
primitive part)...but it is improved in this version. Probably the 
best comparison is to Piezography...which is EASIER to use since it 
is a PS plug-in but only works for BW and has only about 30 
profiles...IP works for color, RGB BW and Grayscale BW (4 inks) and 
has over 180 profiles with a committment to add for all mainstream 
papers.

cheers,

Tom O'Connell


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "all ozzie" 
<allozzie@b...> wrote:
> Hello all
> 
> I'm a new owner of an Epson 2100/2200 and like most of you, I'm 
quite unhappy with the Black and White prints it produces. I have 
tried Black Only printing with the standard matte black ink but find 
it's more brown than black. I was wondering if there is an 
alternative black ink cartridge on the market which produces a richer 
black than the Epson product and if so, are there any special tricks 
in producing Black only prints. Thanks in advance - Bruce

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> Bruce McKean
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