Digital BW, The Print

At 07:58 AM 5/21/2003, you wrote:
>It may work for the 1270/1280 mentioned in the original question,
>but they use dye based inks so they're not very archival.   Using
>the stock Epson inks and the stock Epson driver for pigment-ink
>printers like the 2200 will result in metamerism.    You need to buy
>a RIP with its own driver to get around that using the U/C inks.

The ink that comes with the 1270/1280 is dye-based, but I use third-party 
pigment inks from Mediastreet (color/1280) and MIS (b&w/1270). I use the 
1270 as a dedicated b&w printer precisely because of the metamerism issue 
with the colored inks in the 1280. I do not use a third-party driver for 
either printer. For color, I use printer profiles generated by Cone and by 
Mediastreet, depending on which paper I'm using. For b&w, I use the 
Photoshop curves from Paul Roark.

Stan

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