Digital BW, The Print

I'm not a 2200 user yet, but have you tried using the greyscale balancer
plugin thingy for the 2200...

tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Tucker [mailto:mark@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 10:48 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Photo Rag -- results less than expected
>
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "chipcarterdc"
> <chipcarterdc@h...> wrote:
> > (4) The standard response: get a custom profile (yes I
> recognize the
> > value of this; no, I have not decided to get custom profiles
> made
> > yet).
>
> ------
>
> Printing neutral B/W imagery is about the hardest thing to do in
> whole world, using color inks. Easy to print B/W imagery; very
> hard to do it and keep it neutral.
>
> So, even though I won't hit you over the head with the "standard
> response", I'll simply quote it above.
>
> It's simply not fair to expect that printer to print perfectly neutral
> B/W without a custom profile. You might hit by accident, but you
> don't really have the right to complain if you don't get a profile.
>
> I will say, however, that the canned profiles that came with my
> Ultrachrome 96 are extremely good. Especially the Archival Matte
> profile.
>
> Try it under these conditions:
>
> * Media type: Archival matte
> * DPI: 1440
> * HiSpeed: Off
> * No Color Adjustment
> * SuperMicroWeave: Off
>
> PrintDriver: ColorManagement:
>
> Source> Adobe98RGB
> Destination> 2200 Archival Matte MK
>
> * File should be RGB.
>
> * Monitor should be calibrated, but if not, use Info Pallette over
> several areas. View RGB values to make sure they're neutral, ie
> 145R/145G/145B. Or, in RGB, choose Desaturate to throw your
> values back to neutral.
>
> Try all that, but seriously, just get a profile and much of this
> anguish goes away immediately.
>
> http://www.profilecity.com
>
> MT
>
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