Digital BW, The Print

On 3/6/03 1:10 PM, "A. Andrew Gonzalez" <a_andrew_gonzalez@...> wrote:

> Yes, this makes sense.
> Only I'm not printing with the grey profiles for B/W printing.
> I'm using full color profiles and printing color because I'm
> reproducing color artwork . Even my monochromatic images
> need to be printed in color because of the very warm and subtle
> color tones I use in my paintings.
> So even in color printing the hightlights are course.
> And under a loupe in the highlights it seems that there is no use
> of the varible drop size?

What resolution are you printing at with IP and Epson?   There are several
color profiles for IP at 2880 available on their web site.  Colorbyte's
initial advise was that 2880 shouldn't make any difference in output because
1440 uses variable droplet size when it is needed.  I assumed that this was
also true for Epson.  Perhaps there is something about the exact color of
your images that is resulting in the two profiles (Epson vs. IP) reading
them differently and IP for some reason doesn't think it needs variable
droplet when it does.

Regardless, your test seems to be sensitive to something here and it would
be great to see a 1440 vs. 2880 IP vs. Epson test here.  It will also be
important to know your exact driver settings for the Epson driver.

Robert