Digital BW, The Print

That is precicely why some people are arguing for purchasing ImagePrint,
since they claim to do free profiles for you, if they don't already have
one in place. The software is $500, but the rumor is that this is a
yearly fee, which puts the software out of my range. If that was a one
time fee, I would consider it, as some people are having good success
with it, both for b&w and color prints. But I also hear the interface is
pretty clunky. I am in the software consulting business, and I have a
very low threshold for cruddy interfaces and workarounds.
 
$.02

	-----Original Message-----
	From: chipcarterdc [mailto:chipcarterdc@...] 
	Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 5:47 PM
	To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
	Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Anybody using Photo Rag w. Epson 2200
(without a custom profile)?
	
	
	Thanks for the responses so far.  Re: the point about $150 for a

	custom profile v. the cost of wasted paper and inks -- fair
point.  
	However (and correct me if I'm wrong; I admit that I don't fully

	understand the digital workflow yet, as I am a relative novice
at 
	digital printing), wouldn't that be $150 PER PAPER TYPE?  Aren't

	custom profiles paper-specific?  Thus, if I standardize on 2 or
3 
	papers for different purposes, that's $300 or $450, which adds
up to 
	a lot of paper and ink, particularly for someone like me
interested 
	in limited-volume, fine-art prints, and not large quantities of 
	commercial prints?  For someone like me, it would take a long
time 
	before the wasted paper and ink plus the frustration factor
added up 
	to $450.  Plus the fact that if an interesting new paper comes
out 
	(or more to the point, while I'm still testing different types
of 
	papers), I'd have to get the new paper profiled too.
	
	Or am I missing something about how profiles work?
	
	Also, thanks to the person who responded about the Ilford
Classic 
	Pearl.  It would have been nice if Ilford had told me that this
was 
	the wrong paper for this printer when I called them....
	
	Thanks!
	
	> 
	> Add up the cost of the wasted paper, plus the wasted ink, plus

	> your wasted time, plus the overal frustration, and then
compare 
	> that to $150 for a custom profile.
	> 
	> Or, stay where you are, trying to shoot a moving target. And
get 
	> up tomorrow morning, and try shooting it again.
	> 
	> And for the record, the custom profile won't even solve ALL of
the 
	> problems, but it at least gets you very much in the ballpark.
But 
	> just going through the complete process of setting up for the 
	> profile forces you to think about and record every minute
aspect 
	> of your printing environment. This can only help in the long
run.
	> 
	> Just my opinion.
	> 
	> MT, http://marktucker.com/
	
	
	
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