On Dec 24, 2005, at 4:38 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Can't help you on the paper choice as I prefer and only use matte surface papers ... Epson Heavyweight Matte, Enhanced Matte and Velvet Fine Art are my religion. ;-)
I'd like to use matte papers but the procedure for using the matte black ink with the 2100 Mac driver is a PITA and I'm not doing enough printing to justify the resultant ink wastage.
Regards the profiles, Epson has optional profile packages on the website that should be installable into your system. They seem to cover all their papers, but I haven't looked too specifically into the R2200 sets as I use the R2400.
I'm not talking about the profiles... I've already downloaded Epson's "high quality" profiles, and I let Photoshop do the colour management.
There is a setting in the printer driver where I have to select the correct paper type - eg plain paper, premium semigloss etc. It sets up limits in some of the other controls, eg max available dpi, and it may also affect other things (ink density?).
This doesn't really bother me as long as it works OK if I lie to it. The premium semigloss setting works fine for premium glossy paper. I suspect that with PS handling colour management, this driver setting becomes less important.
- Dave
