Digital BW, The Print

In the past, I confess I've never paid much attention to the print 
exchanges. The idea seemed interesting but I never had time to follow the 
threads.

Your idea seems like a good one. I personally don't have the time or the 
pile of money to try every combination under the sun, not to mention the 
combinations continue to grow. But I may be up to participating in a print 
exchange like this if we could select the paper. I simply don't like EAM 
because other paper will last longer. Surely most people have one or two 
papers they use most of the time. Let them use one of those for the exchange.

And there is one other comment I might make: The ink/driver/paper/printer 
combo I select will match my images which will differ from the next 
person's. I may prefer high contrast most of the time while someone else 
may do the opposite. So I would suggest letting people interpret the image 
as well. Provide a basic scan in 16 bit and let everyone do whatever 
Levels/Curves/etc. they choose. While this may take away -- and in a big 
way -- from the comparison aspect of the exchange, it will also address 
something we may often overlook in our talk about b/w inkjet printing: that 
the combinations one person chooses match their personal style and may not 
work for the next person because their style is different. I'm also 
interested in a discussion on this particular point.

Jeff Greer

At 05:57 PM 09/02/2002 -0300, you wrote:
>Aside from the usual print exchange that goes here,I was thinking of
>something different. There are now so many different combinations of
>ink,paper,printer and software,that it´s very hard for most of us now to
>evaluate what's "better". So my idea is:
>Someone chooses a representative image and upload it to the list archive.
>All those who participate download it and print it with a certain
>combination. Variables could be:
>
>Inks: MIS VM,VM-Sepia and FS,Piezo in various flavors.
>Printers: 1160,1280,3000 and it's little sisters (like the 980)
>Paper: Maybe here we should stick to EAM only,otherwise the number of
>combination will grow wild.
>Drivers: Epson,Imageprint and Piezo.
>
>So that we can stop wondering about differences and see for ourselves. Sure
>that who is printing will still be an uncontrolled variable,but there are
>limits to this idea...
>
>Any ideas about this and how to improve and implement it?
>
>André Vallejo
>
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