Hello Paul, >Clayton, in one of those papers you recommended the Epson 200. When I looked for one, it had been updated to the 220 but it's worked out very well... > However, when it joins that great Printer Brotherhood in the sky, what can I replace it with? Sorry, I don't know of a good replacement. My 200 died and I've only used the 2400 since then. Haven't done any Eboni printing in awhile. >Paul suggested the C88, but in one of your writings you said the C86 didn't do well with BO printing... That was not from my own experience, but was based on comments here by users who tried it, plus some sample prints that people sent me, which were very poor (coarse dots, bad dither banding, etc). Back in those days when there was a lot of BO discussion it was generally accepted that the C86 wasn't a good BO machine. >Do you think the C88 or C88+ would be better? I don't know. Just have to try it and see, or ask here if anyone has one. >(and by the way, what's the "+" for?) I don't know that either. Sorry to not be much help. I think the days of single channel BO are pretty much gone. Epson has phased out that feature in their drivers. The various multi-channel approaches produce better results, so we probably just need to resign ourselves to the QTR/tif route. The 2kBO approach is a step up (article #3c) and Paul Roark's latest ink sets produce really fine results. I'm thinking about getting a 280 but have been too busy lately to follow through. Maybe later this summer. Regards, Clayton Info on black and white digital printing at http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm I-Trak 2.1 http://www.cjcom.net/itrak.htm
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R220 Replacement - was Epson HPN
2010-04-09 by ClaytonJ