Digital BW, The Print

Jesse. This is an old printer and it's failings have been well documented. I have no experience of it's use with the Quadtonerip. All I know is that when I bought it when it came out it was heralded as a printer that could really get to grips with b&w. I really struggled. I never printed glossy on it, who buys glossy prints?Not my clients. It did produce bronzing an metermerism with b&w. we used to carry the prits around the house looking at them under tungsten, strip, halogen, daylight, etc etc, they changed colour as we moved from room to room. next to fibre print they were unsellable. From our business anyway. 
So I invested £600 in Imageprint. It improved things a bit but not good enough for our business that had been selling beautiful fibre prints for the last ten years. They just were not up to the quality.
We now print on a 4800 on Davinci or Innova paper and get great results. Not quite as good as fibre, but all the same very good.
Jules


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "jespes" <jesse.pesta@...> wrote:
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> >  Sadly (the 2200) was faulted as a decent photographic image printer with it's bronzing and metermerism.
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> That sounds scary. So let me describe my experience in more detail, in case it helps put Jules's important observations in context.
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> Re bronzing: It's my impression -- others will correct me if I'm wrong -- that bronzing with the 2200 could happen with glossy paper. Printing on matte paper (which is all I use), I saw no bronzing.
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> Re metamerism: I saw metamerism when using the stock Epson driver to print b/w. This is why I recommended in my earlier note to skip Epson driver, and instead install the Quadtonerip. With QTR and stock Epson inks, I see no metamerism. 
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> Definitions, in case needed: Bronzing is when you look at a print at a sharp angle and it starts to look sort-of "posterized." Metamerism is where a print takes on a color cast, say green or magenta, under different light.
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> Hope this helps.
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