Digital BW, The Print

> That's excellent.  I hope they extend the support to the 3000, 7000 and
> others.

They have a 7000 and 9000 class driver already.  I don't know about the
3000...its rather old technology...they aren't supporting the 1160 either.

> I still think that a free, open entry-level approach is needed.  However,
> for those who do a lot of printing or for whom the price is no problem, I
> have no doubt that a professional RIP with lots of paper profiles will be
> the way to go.
> Paul
> http://www.PaulRoark.com

Unless you are content to print on EAM...or have a whole lot of time and
money for paper I think spending the money for either Piezo or Imageprint is
the best thing a newbe can do...buying the piezo driver was the best money I
spent in this whole venture.  I would have never gotten to where I am now
using curves...I simply don't have enough time to develop and tweak them for
all the different papers that I would have liked to try.  Having all of
those paper profiles has allowed me to try so many papers with good results.
In my opinion you simply don't get a feel for what quad printing can be if
you only print on EAM.

I think that imageprint looks like a good alternative...it allows
considerably more control than the piezo driver, no microbanding and better
dmax on the same papers.  When the VM upgrade is ready...I'd say that would
be the ultimate quad print engine. I'll report when I get a copy...but I
trust Mike's appraisal using the FS-N inks.

Robert


On 5/8/02 10:33 AM, "Paul Roark" <paul.roark@...> wrote:

> Robert,
> 
> That's excellent.  I hope they extend the support to the 3000, 7000 and
> others.
> 
> I still think that a free, open entry-level approach is needed.  However,
> for those who do a lot of printing or for whom the price is no problem, I
> have no doubt that a professional RIP with lots of paper profiles will be
> the way to go.
> Paul
> http://www.PaulRoark.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Morrison [mailto:rmorrison@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 9:13 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Simply please? - 1270 & 870
> 
> 
> Imageprint is about (I think next week) to release their product for the
> 1270/1280/1290 that supports the current FS ink sets.  It will include
> profiles for most of the papers that you all are currently using including
> Epson/Hahnemuhle/Legion and Brightcube. Support for the VM ink set is to
> follow.
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> 5/8/02 9:24 AM, "Paul Roark" <paul.roark@...> wrote:
> 
>> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Paul Roark"
>> <paul.roark@v...> wrote:
>> 
>>>> I suspect I'll also do an Epson FS workflow for 1270 & 870 the
>>>> platform.
>> 
>> Jeff Randall wrote:
>> 
>>> Are you planning to "profile" the FS inkset based on your proposed
>>> different ink positions or are you going to experiment with changing
>>> the FS ink densities at their current positions?
>> 
>> Probably both.  I'll likely see how your profile for the altered ink
>> positions works first.  However, I think that a "no workflow" Fs inkset
> for
>> the modern hextones would help a lot of people going with less confusion
>> than now exists with all these curves.  Of course, how much time is
>> available is always a variable.
>> 
>> Paul
>> http://www.PaulRoark.com
>> 
>> 
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