Digital BW, The Print

Martin,

> 
> It would indeed be interesting to see what you get for your $10,000 
> which I think is the selling price of the 10000. Hmmm..

Well, I think I will just be content to look at others work at that 
price at the moment. 

> > 
> > The slightly coarser look of the 7000 and up probably wouldn't be 
> > noticeable do to the size prints these were designed to make. I 
> keep 
> > thinking about a 7000 as the prices continue to drop at a rapid 
> pace, 
> > just not down to my "range" yet!<g>
> 
> Print is one thing but where to but it!! 

Aw, come on, I know those houses on the West Coast have ceilings 
(don't they?).<g>

>I would like the quality but 
> I would be happier to have a 17" wide desktop printer with the same 
> quality. Maybe that huge gap will be filled by something in the new 
> C80 style now that the 3000 seems to be gone.

I have been keeping an eye on the C80. 

Epson seems to be playing with some ideas that are quite a departure 
from the norm for them. I am curious about the lower rating of the 
Durabrite inks - maybe they figured they could eliminate the dreaded 
Metamerism and still be happy with competing with the lower 
Metamerism third party inks in terms of longevity. It will be 
interesting to see if the new pigs are low/free of metamerism. I 
think this will lead to the 2000P replacement by years end perhaps.

I also find it interesting that they are deviating from the two 
cartridge approach. They may very well be headed in the direction of 
more colors or a combination color/b&w machine. Things will be 
getting interesting soon.

> 
> > 
> > I noticed the same thing in my Spectratone sample prints. I have 
> been 
> > playing with both these and the color Wide Spectrums on a 1270 
> doing 
> > some beta testing (at the moment concentrating on the WS). I did 
> > notice that the Spectratone inks responded better to using the 
> > separation curves under RGB similiar to Pauls curves, I got 
> > reasonably close. Maybe Allen will play with that idea using the 
> > softproof method on the 3000 to help smooth the output.
> 
> When I last looked at his site it looked like he had gone in that 
> direction with the 1200 unless I misinterpreted the workflow.

I believe he was still using a simple curve under grayscale for the 
1200, and using a rip for the 3000. It was interesting that the Epson 
driver with a curve produced better output than the 3000 with a rip. 
> 
> Martin
> 
> (snip)

Terry