Thanks for replying.
I haven't had much smearing, but I have found that there is a slight magental cast to the image. This is not the classic magenta cast that one gets when forgetting to select "no color adjustment" (with color handled by Photoshop). But nonetheless a subltle, yet significant, magenta cast.
Has this been your experience as well?
david
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In my early days with my 2200 I spent a sizable bundle (software, hardware, ink and paper) trying to solve the Color Management problem (when I first bought the printer I had never heard the phrase "color mangement".) Here are some of the things that didn't work for me in those days:
1. The Epson canned profiles didn't seem to get me good colors or neutral gray scales.
2. The "Epson Gray Balancer" was unable to get me neutral grays.
3. I spent money on an Epson RIP with no better results.
4. At one point I used a lot of paper trying to make my own printer profiles with some Monaco software that uses a scanner to sample the test images. I learned the hard way that scanners are not up to the task of printer profiling.
Now here is what has finally worked for me on my Epson 2200:
1. In desperation, after reading positive reviews, I invested in the ImagePrint RIP, which uses its own printer driver and comes with a huge number of very good paper profiles. For the past three or four years I have used ImagePrint for all my color printing, and it has done very well for me. But it's hugely overpriced and has an awkward user interface.
2. Even ImagePrint wasn't able to give me the control I wanted over black-and-white prints, so I tried Roy Harrington's QuadTone RIP (QTRGui), which is cheap and excellent. I use it for all my B&W work (which is quite a lot). It is easy to use, inexpensive, and allows a lot of tonal control between cool and warm.
Once my 2200 dies, I'll probably get a 3800 (or whatever will have replaced it by then). Here is what I expect to do at that point (since IP is outrageously expensive):
1. Get custom profiles made by Andrew Rodney ("Digital Dog") for each of the 4 or 5 papers I'm most likely to use (total cost is much less than IP for the 3800), and
2. Continue to use QTRGui for B&W work.
I hope this helps.
