Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 8/1/02 4:38:26 PM, jeffm@... writes:

>With all this clamoring and sour notes about why Epson decided not to
>include this software please keep in mind that this software is an
>unknown quantity. It may be really quite useless or just novelty for the
>serious user. Why not just take a deep breath and wait until the
>printers are in major circulation with lots or reports and then decide
>if you want to drive Epson crazy with demands for the Gray Balancer.


Having worked with developing gray balance algorithms myself, I can tell you 
that they do work (can work would be a better general phrase), but lets 
emphasise the fact that gray balancing does nothing that good profile 
creation or editing software can't manage, and that this won't eliminate 
metamerism, only allow you to select what lighting you would like your prints 
to balance under; so this is not an irretrievable loss, simply an 
inconvenience.

C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
CDTobie@...