Digital BW, The Print

At 12:19 AM 2/9/2003 +0000, DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com wrote:
>I am using the 2200 for both color and grayscale. My results with George
>Lepp's profiles are very good. My results with Imageprint 5 are spectacular.
>Lovely tonal scale, very smooth transitions and minimal (almost not there)
>metamerism. I have carried a print to various places (tungsten, OttLite,
>fluorescent (most varieties), daylight, etc.
>I am really considering IP5 as a part of the 2200 "system."

Since metamerism is a property of the ink, how/why would a RIP
or a profile be able to fix it?

I've been reluctant to invest in a RIP that costs almost as much
as the printer, since the real purpose of a RIP is not color
adjustment, but managing and automating a commercial print shop.
Most of the features that you're paying for in the IP RIP have
no relevance to amateur photography printing.   But in any
case I still want to hear how a RIP fixes metamerism.

Also, I contacted Colorbytes to ask where i could see sample
output and they said they don't "do" that.  It made them seem
rather sleazy to me.

BTW, I've also talked to other people who say that got better
results with the Epson grayscale balancer than with the IP
RIP, and other people who say they they don't see any
metamerism with the default Epson profiles.

---peter