As soon as my Epson 88+ and EZ inks arrived, I put it all together. When I first opened the box from MIS, I got a slight shock when I saw three color-coded cartridges. I thought all four were supposed to be black and white! And, of course, they were, as I saw when I read the cart labels more closely.
Did I mention I’m new to this…?
I went to Paul Roark’s BW section <http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/> and then to his workflow suggestions for the C88+ <http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/C86-EZ-UT-Readme.htm>
The workflow is very detailed, but also dated: October 6, 2010. At one point, Paul references Photoshop CS2. I’m working with Photoshop CC 2014. And as you know, Adobe and other software makers love to improve their software, which always means lots of tinkering with things like print dialog boxes. Suffice it to say that, for a complete beginner at this stuff (me), it was difficult to translate the four-year-old settings.
I hasten to add two things here.
1. Paul responded to an email query of mine yesterday within hours, and has answered a couple of more since. (More about the subject later.) He is obviously a stand-up guy.
2. Paul has no responsibility to keep updating workflows. It would be an unending and thankless task.
Nonetheless, I’d hit my first roadblock.
And it was worse than just not being able to accurately set print settings in Photoshop. You may laugh, but I still can’t guess for sure from the workflow document whether I should send a colour file to the printer from Photoshop (and let the ink set do the “conversion”) or if I should send a BW file. See comment above about being new to this.
Enough for this entry. But stay tuned. It seems to be getting worse before it gets better.