Digital BW, The Print

Alex:

Isn't Woolf's workflow curve just a slight tweak up from your goal of 
printing a 8-bit grayscale image with the Epson driver with no 
correction? If you are planning to control each ink seperately, I 
think you will have to convert to 24-bits and "color" the grayscale 
image so the Epson driver knows which ink to laydown (this is called 
partitioning).  The Epson driver sees in RGB (converted internally to 
CMY) not in grayscale when in the color mode.  

Jeff Randall 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "a_pettit_jr" 
<a_pettit_jr@y...> wrote:
> Hi Jeff, 
> 
> Thanks for the information. I'll let you know what I find.
> I want to pull this Epson color cart and verify that the C and PC,
> M and PM are about 3:1 in shade as is the MIS FS inkset. Somehow, 
having the PM ( soon to be 'PC' ) lighter color than Yellow bothers 
me...
> 
> I have a copy of Woolf's workflows: they are more an S curve 
contrast enhancement. 
> 
> I am probably totally incorrect with all of this, but it seems 
worth a try ....
> 
> Best,
> Alex
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "jrandall1149" 
<jrandall@c...> wrote:
> > Alex:
> > 
> > You are heading into uncharted waters (at least by me) of 
reordering 
> > the ink positions and using the Epson driver with no adjustment 
> > curves.  Paul Roark theorized several months ago about switching 
the 
> > FS ink positions, but I don't remember the details or know if he 
ran 
> > any tests.  
> > 
> > You indicated you tried the VM inkset and found it didn't work 
for 
> > you on your 2000.  Now that you have the FS-E inks, I suggest you 
> > consider the Woolf lumped/nonpartitioned work flow for the FS-E 
> > inkset before you commit to your plan--this is an alternative to 
the 
> > PiezoBW driver.  
> > 
> > The workflow can be found on the MIS Quad Workflow page at:  
> > www.inksupply.com.
> > 
> > Good Luck.
> > 
> > Jeff Randall
> > 
> >