Hi, I've been using the 2200 for a few weeks for color and sepia toned prints. The quality is outstanding. The last week or so with the matte black cartridge which limits the paper types. I've tried watercolor, semi gloss and archival matte papers, watercolor comes out ok, archival matte is incredible for it's accurate flesh tones, detail and brilliance. Mostly been using A3 or super B3, 11x17 and 13x19, but the 8.5x11 semi gloss using the photo black came out great to. Some of the best prints have been of the Hubble photographs posted by NASA, macro of flowers and a scanned family photograph from 1917. I feel the ink usage is real good, I've printed a couple hundred photos replacing 8 cartridges total, light cyan 3 times. I ordered the extra cartridges and paper directly from epson for 10.95 each and free shipping. Circuit city is advertising them online for 11.99 but they only had yellow in stock as of a few days ago. Hope this helps, Rick J C Hanson wrote: > Hello Brian, > > I'll attempt to answer some of your questions within the limits of the > 2200 using the Photo Black ink cartridge. (Haven't tried the Matte > Black, as yet!) Let me also say that, I personally, have not yet > printed any BxW with this printer but my partner has. The 2200 > produces quite beautiful BxW prints on a variety of papers. Carl (my > honey) has printed with the black ink only (Photoshop grey-scaled) for > a neutral toned image, as well as using all colors to produce sepia > and monochromatic toned images (Photoshop grey-scale converted back to > RGB and adjusted with Variations). Obviously, each paper/ink > combination will give you something you might have to tweak a little > but it's usually been dog-gone close on the first shot. Carl likens > them to platinum and selenium toned prints... he's quite happy with > the results. No metamerism. Also be aware that the 7600 had a > different head than the 2200. We went to a demo of the 7600 a couple > of weeks ago... VERY quiet machine (compared to the Epson 9000 that > we have) but they were only printing color that day. Still, I don't > think you will be disappointed. > > If you are not aware of this particular newsgroup, you should look > into signing up for "Digital Black and White: The Print" on Yahoo > Groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint > They should have an archive already built on feedback for these printers! > > Hope that helps? > > Cheers, > Janine > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 12:37:42 -0400 > From: Brian Roberts <right.brain@verizon.net> > Subject: Re: Gallery Ramblings & Impressions > > Hi Janine, > > I've been seriously thinking of purchasing the Epson 7600 printer (the > larger cousin to the Epson 2200). Could you share your opinion about > your 2200, since it uses the same inkset as the 7600, once you've done > some testing with it? I don't know anyone who has actually used one, and > have seen few reviews of either printer. > > I'm especially interested in how it handles black and white (metamerism) > and sepia tone printing. I've been using the Epson 2000P - it cannot > handle b/w and has serious color shifts when printing sepia toned or > monochromatic images. > > I'd like to hear from anyone else who has had any experience with these > new printers as well. Thanks. > Brian Roberts > >
