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[OM] Re: Printing B&W on an Epson 2200-Get a RIP!

Subject: [OM] Re: Printing B&W on an Epson 2200-Get a RIP!
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 23:37:38 -0800
But $500. Jeez.



Winsor
Long Beach, California
USA
On Feb 23, 2004, at 10:32 PM, Stephen Scharf wrote:

> Dick,
> I can help you there regarding the Epson 2200 and black and white.
> This was covered in my Color Management course by Andrew Rodney at
> the Santa Fe workshops. The problem isn't with the 2200 at all, it
> lies with the Epson 2200 printer driver. The problem is that when
> printing black and white in the print driver setting, there is no way
> to turn off some small amt. of yellow that gets put down; some quirk
> of the driver. The hot set-up for printing black and white on a 2200
> is to use a RIP; the best one right now is the ImagePrint RIP. which
> allows you to print without any "Y" at all. Once you use an
> Imageprint RIP, you can get stunning black and white prints,
> especially if you use, as you pointed out, Archival Matte, Enhanced
> Matte or Fine Art Matte and the Matte Black ink. But the Imageprint
> RIP is really the key. The Epson print academy course had a film clip
> with Greg Gorman, who prints beautiful black and white work on an
> Epson 4000 (the new successor the 2200). FWIW, no one prints anything
> on glossy on a 2200...the inkset just doesn't work well on glossy.


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