Digital BW, The Print

Peter, how can you be happy with something that compresses the shadow
detail? Can this be corrected with a softproof or curves move?

Julian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Palmieri" <pcpalmieri@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Epson 2200 RIP: further results?


> I too am getting excellent B&W results with the Epson RIP for the 2200. I
have made many tests with photographs and the grey scale.
>
> The grey scale shows very distinct separation from 0% to 100%. Also there
is good separation from 0% to 5% but none from 95% to 100%. I see no lines,
dots or metamerism either under bright sunlight (it is bright virturally
every day here in Southwest Florida) or under incandescant lighting. I used
a magnifying glass for the viewing even though I never think of looking at a
photograph of mine with a lupe or a magnifying glass. My observations were
corroborated by two friends, one of whom has had many years of printing
B&W's in a wet darkroom and the other has been printing B&W using an Epson
3000 with Cone inks.
>
> The lines (lp/mm) of 1.8, 2.4 and 3.6 are distinct, clear and sharp. But,
this is not true at 7.2 lp/mm.
>
> I have settle on the color settings, density of 108% and with no profile.
My guess is that with a proper profile chosen that the results could get
better. I am using matte black ink, Epson's Enhanced Matte paper, Win XP and
have made prints using both Qimage and PS7. Qimage may produce a touch
better print but of that I am not sure yet.
>
> I have not messed with color printing with the RIP since the regular 2200
driver does such a nice job.
>
> Peter Palmieri
>
>   SandyCornelius wrote:
>
>   Getting very nice results with grayscale using ERIP conventionally on
>   EEM with negligible metamerism. And I mean really good results --
>   vitually as good as dedicated black/grey inksets. Downside is I can't
>   get an acceptable toned print yet (see below).
>
>   Tricked the RIP into printing Matte Black UC at 2880x1440 dpi on EEM
>   and got unsatisfactory results (grayscale gradient not linear). Need
>   to figure out why.
>
>   Tried printing a duotone image in an attempt to get a toned print and
>   preliminary results were unacceptable. It might be how I'm inputting
>   my profile into the RIP, but who knows since the documentation is so
>   lacking. Epson needs to put a decent manual on their site for
>   download -- sure would save a lot of trial and error time (and money).
>
>   I have a feeling metamerism will rear its ugly head when printing a
>   toned image since metamerism is a function of the ink. The IP5
>   tintpicker avoids this, evidently, by not using certain inks -- I
>   don't think the ERIP does that, but we'll see.
>
>
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