Digital BW, The Print

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From: "thedigitaldog" <andrew@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 3:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Imageprint


> True indeed. What we'd like to see is the powers to be at Epson seeing a
> much, much better solution and instead of puting efforts into poor
software
> (which they've done for years up to and including the Gray Balancer), they
> simply OEM the software or have the ability for ColorByte to sell enough
> copies so that instead of $495, it's $195 or maybe much less.

The Epson drivers until now have given us the best quality available in full
colour printing. Within their intended limitation of OEM inks and papers.
Very few RIP's could deliver an equal quality in dithering. The Epson
drivers showed their limitation when third party papers or inks had to be
used. There is no ink limit control and linearisation possible then. I
wouldn't call the Epson drivers poor software. Even with the driver
limitation but with some third party profiling software/hardware (Profiler
Pro, cheaper Spectrometers) it often was possible to get better printing
results than expensive RIP and colourmanagement solutions could offer. At
least this last route gave us some custom profiling per unique printer
without the expensive route of buying a RIP etc.

Things may have changed now, we will see.

Ernst