Digital BW, The Print

Hi Jeff,

You have identified the problem in attempting to use Woolf's correction curves : they are just S curve contrast corrections. If the inks are misplaced, this type of workflow cannot correct the error. It would take the sophisticated RGB color corrections of Paul Roark to compensate for inks in positions 'not expected' by the Epson Driver.
( IE, the Epson driver is going to squirt from the Black position even if I install Yellow ink and no greyscale control can correct that )
Thus my hypothesis: if the inks are incorrectly located, a simple S curve tweak will be fully ineffective. I am hoping to get as close as Epson 'expects' the inks to be and then use some mild correction curve if needed.....

Maybe the 2000P, being pigment based, uses drivers which deposit inks in a sequence differing from the other Epsons and thus the classic hex grey sets have not worked optimally ??

Best,
Alex


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "jrandall1149" <jrandall@c...> wrote:
> 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 
> 
>