Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Lloyd O'Daniel" 
<lodaniel@b...> wrote:
> I have a couple or 3 questions for you Imageprint 5 Desktop version
> owners. Like you, I am put off by the ridiculous pricing strategy 
being
> employed for desktop printers. I'm deciding on upgrading my printing
> system with either a 2200 or 2 1280's. To date, I have exclusively 
used
> 3rd party inks and CIS's. Fiddling with the tiny and expensive 2200
> carts would only be tolerated if there was a clear and present
> improvement in print quality.

Remember my reason is reliability- 3rd party inks clog up my 1280 and 
before that 1160's  terribly. I DO notice a quality improvement over 
MIS VM, but I must again stress that I was using experimental VM 
curves and printing at 2880 dpi where variable dot size is not used. 

 <snip>

> I realize Colorbyte has said that they would not support 3rd party 
color
> inks. But, if you bought IP5 and sent them a 1280 color target 
printed
> with Gen4, they'd have to profile it for you, right?


I just looked over the long list of profiles. I found currently:

1270 COLOR profiles for Archival mat, gloss,luster,melinex.

1280 MIS-FS profiles for BC-Satine, Museo, Orwell, Radient White, 
S.E., S.V.

1280 Piezo profiles for German Etching and Photorag. It's not stated 
whether these are color or greyscale.

There's also a bunch of profiles that just have Cone's name for the 
paper on them (i.e. Well's River, Orwell again) without further 
delination and I don't know what they go with unless it's for the new 
Piezo packaged with IP5.


Other than that, I don't know if they would profile for you or not.
These may be old profiles or new, I just don't know.

> 
> Second, I read the find print on Colobyte's site which stated that 
Auto
> print, print tiling, and color correction is disabled on the desktop
> version of IP. The first two features are clearly explained and I 
could
> do without them. But it's unclear just exactly what is meant by 
disabled
> color correction.

You would get "demo" printed across the image- not on monitor. This 
only happened once to me so I haven't checked it out completely, I've 
gotten other strange funnies but they are livable. One comment is that 
I CAN get the ink reduction section of "color correction" to work, 
which is proving to be important with my ink loading problem on 
Eclipse.
Jim H.



 That sounds ominous. I would certainly want
> clarification of exactly what limitation that imposes because that 
could
> be a deal-killer. Can y'all elaborate on what is meant by that on 
the
> web page?
> 
> Lloyd
>