2200-Techniques

Variations on a Theme
Following the publication of myGray Balancerreview, and alsoCarl Schofield'sarticle onB&W Printingwith theEpson 2200 / 2100, I spent a couple of days playing with many of the possible variations of B&W and colour printing. I was curious to see which was the preferable approach when working both in B&W and colour.
This page details my subjective evaluations. I was assisted in this byChris Sanderson, a commercial film director / producer and photographer with some 30 years of professional experience.
The Paper & Inks
For these tests I only usedEpson Archival Matte(Enhanced Matte) and the optionalMatte Blackink. Why? Because this is the paper that I've been using the most for the past couple of years, first on theEpson 2000Pthen theEpson 5500. It performs exceptionally well with the new 2200, especially with the newMatte Blackink. This series of tests took quite some time so I'm not about to repeat them with many other papers, though I expect to do s...