Digital BW, The Print

Hello everyone,
I currently print with a 2200 and Imageprint RIP for B&W and have gotten excellent results. 
Anyone out there with experience of printing B&W with the 2400 and an Imageprint RIP? Any 
improvement from the the 2200 with the same RIP?
I also read a short posting on Amazon that the Epson drivers dont yet work with Leopard? 
Any comments?
Thanks.
Julio

Hello Julio,

>Anyone out there with experience of printing B&W with the 2400 and an
>Imageprint RIP? Any improvement from the the 2200 with the same RIP?

It may be that nobody has replied to this because nobody is using IP
with a 2400.  The 2400 is popular mainly for two reasons: the K3 inks
and it's ABW driver which is essentially a simple built in RIP.  The
only advantage of using a 3rd party RIP would be to use K3 inks
without the Yellow (or perhaps some other sophisticated
manipulations).  I think there have been a few posts over the past
couple of years from people doing that with QTR, but my impression is
that most 2400 users are using ABW mode.

I think any improvement in a 2400 over a 2200 with IP would have to
come from the K3 ink (3 blacks, less bronzing on glossy papers, less
metamerism, better fade resistance).  If someone were to use 3rd party
inks and a 3rd party RIP there would be no advantage to a 2400.  Might
as well pay less and use an 1800.

I hope this helps.


Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm

Hello Julio, 
> Anyone out there with experience of printing B&W with the 2400 and
> Imageprint RIP? Any improvement from the the 2200 with the same RIP?

Short answer:  Yes!

Longer answer: You'll get the K3 ink advantages of the 2400.  You'll
get the Imageprint advantages of truly no metamerism (no yellow ink
used), great dither and a tinted-BW system with real soft-proofing. 
Alas, IP6 "Lite" on Windows Xp Pro can't use the 2400 single-sheet
feed or the front-fed thick-media functions at my house.  Only the top
sheet feeder which means the 2400 struggles with thick paper. 
Colorbyte a very fair price for the 2400 IP6 Lite as an "add-on" to 
ownership of the 2200 RIP.  Their profiles for the 2400 are as superb
as they are for the 2200.  In my very dry climate, the K3 inks in the
2400 behave better than the 2200 inks.

I suspect sensitivity to metamerism problems varies with the person. 
It's like the mixed blessing of perfect pitch. I find Epson's ABW
doesn't quite make the grade like IP6 (tho ABW is a great function and
deserves praise)I don't feel the need to go to IP7 (yet). 

It's only money!  :0)

Will Clark