Digital BW, The Print

Paul Roark wrote:

>
> One thing I think I've heard at least indirectly from a couple of posts is
> that profiling software needs the driver color controls set to "no color
> adjustment."  Is this true?

YES.. definitely...  Most of the drivers do adjustment of their own to 
some extent, if you don't use "no adjustment" you have multiple 
adjustments of the color space going on... Effectively you will end up 
with the smallest subset of the overlapping color spaces... not to 
mention other problems if you don't kill the driver's color 
correction/adjustment..

Once you do have a proper profile, you leave everything to "no 
adjustment" and print to the profile as the "print color space"

>
> Between the possibility that the curves are cross-platform with that 
> setting
> and the possibility that profiling software may work better with "no color
> adjustment" checked, I've started to write curves using that setting.  
> (The
> sliders don't seem to work very well with the hextone printers 
> anyway.)  If
> there are other settings that are needed for profiling software to be 
> useful
> with the Epson driver, partitioned workflows, let me know, and I'll 
> start to
> incorporate those in the future curves I write.

I'd say go with the following for the most generic results with the 
1270/870 driver:

Photo Paper

1440 DPI

High Quality Halftoning

No Color Adjustment

High Speed OFF



Keith