Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 9/6/02 10:22:14 AM, dan_honemann@... writes:

>Many thanks for the informative replies to my question.  Your 
>responses lead me to a second question (or maybe another way of 
>formulating the first): since Colorbyte provides free profiles for 
>papers to ImagePrint customers, does it make any sense for me to 
>invest in custom profiling software (and a flatbed scanner, neither 
>of which I own now)?  I also don't own a densitometer, if that 
>matters.  I intend to print both color and b&w on my 2200 using a 
>variety of papers.

First off, a scanner-based printer profile is not likely to do justice to 
your RIP and your 2200, especially for black and white. If ColorByte is 
truely going to build free, unlimited, profiles for everyone who purchases 
the low cost version of their RIP for the 2200, and if the profiles are 
actual, accurate ICC profiles, then thats the way to go... but it seems 
unlikely that they would. Wait until this shakes out before looking any 
further, and if you end up looking, investigate spectro-based systems.

C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
CDTobie@...