I don't know how the 2100 differs from the 2200, but with my 2200, I
switch back and forth between matte black and photo black ink on a
regular basis. In addition to the Premium Semigloss and Premium Lustre
papers for Photo Black, I use Radiant White Watercolor and Velvet Fine
art with the Matte Black cartridge. The swap takes about a minute on a
Mac. You just quite PhotoShop (if it's open) go to Printer Utility,
delete the printer, swap the ink cartridges, go back to Printer Utility
and add the printer. Done.
Paul
On Dec 23, 2005, at 11:45 PM, David Mann wrote:
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
