Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I spent a good part of 3 months earlier this year to establish a digital B&W printing workflow. I tried the Epson 2200 as described below, among many other things. In the end though, I find that Piezography gives me the best B&W prints, by far. You must realize though that the state of the art moves very fast in the digital realm. - - Phong eric@jphotog.com wrote: > > I got this from a friend on an email list I've been on for about 10 years. > It might help somefolks looking for b&w help with the 2200. > > > Eric - My son in law uses the 2200 extensively and makes a lot of > monochromatic prints on that unit tells me the trick is to do the > following: > > use the premium Epson photo matt paper > > replace standard black ink cartridge with the photo matt black > ink cartridge > > set the unit to print in black and white only and not to use any colors > whatsoever. > > Rob claims that if you follow this procedure you get a fairly decent > print without any color cast to it. If you attempt to use the > Epson Color > management tools and have tried to produce a black and white > print, it does > so by mixing various colors inks to greet a black dot. but the nature of > the pigment in the inks and the reflective quality of most of the other > papers produced by Epson cause it to give a slightly varying color casts > depending on the type of lighting you view it under. He says that holds > true even on the samples produced by Epson to show how their results. > > I've said the copy of this e-mail to the edges you pointed out in > your note. > > Bob > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html