Digital BW, The Print

Tyler,

thanks for your opinions on this. It is very useful for me to compare notes and 
see if I am even following this debate correctly.

> Antonis, it's sounding to me like you have a lot of quad experience 
> yourself, certainly more than I.

Maybe, but not compared to the likes of Jon Cone, the folks at MIS, Paul 
Roark,  Dan and company here who have fought the Epson battles. 
4 color Iris is a breeze by comparison!!! (even with dozens of complex controls 
at the driver level)

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> One conclusion from the above is that, even with as RGB preview 
> profile, good sound quad separation methods necessary for any of these 
> workflows still apply. Right, the profile won't do that for you.


That was my point exactly. That someone in Martin's position would spend 
thousands just to gain an approximate screen preview - which for mono is 
very secondary to me. It may be important to others, so I am not knocking it, 
but at what cost?


> >...My own experience assumes that you have access to 4 
> > individual "plates" and can write separation actions. 
......
> That's exactly right Antonis. But if one IS using the driver, the 
> profile has the advantage of reporting to you exactly what the driver 
> is doing. 

Yes, true.... yikes!  <g>

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That's a loooong way to go to avoid the warming of piezo. And even then, 
> > aren't Paul's curves for the VT inks pretty much a done deal out of the 
box?
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> I agree with you Antonis. The only thing I can say is that since I 
> already had the spectro and software, I had to try Dan's idea. I've 
> now used it in a few different situations and have been really 
> impressed by how well it works as a solution for using the Epson 
> driver for quad ink sets.
> But it won't replace good sep methods, you still have to learn all 
> that!
> Tyler

That's right. The key here is that you already had the hardware as many who 
do high-end color work would. But what if someone is only doing quad and 
not planning on seing big profits come in right away? What is cost efficient at 
the 1,000-2,000 mark? Everyone's threshold of pain will differ...


Antonis