Digital BW, The Print

How is the quality of the 2200/UC  prints using the supplied profiles?   
Grainy? Any color crossover problems that require profile tweaking?   
Metamerism? Comparison to IP 5 results would be useful.

Thanks,
Carl Schofield
On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 04:28  PM, Antonis Ricos wrote:

> Owen,
>
> since you brought it up, and Robert already chimed in, here is my take  
> on IJC.
> I should say up front that I have no business arrangement with bowhaus  
> who
> makes the software, but I have been involved as beta tester.
>
> In my opinion Inkjet Control heralds a new era in bw inkjet printing  
> by giving
> the printmaker  better control than we ever had even in  those Iris  
> behemoths
> of yesteryear.  Being able to chose which ink nozzle fires and  
> precisely
> controlling how much ink it lays down for a given digital value in a  
> grayscale
> file is simply awsome. We are now free to mix and match inksets as we  
> please
> and fine tune performance on a day-to-day or  paper -to-paper basis  
> without
> relying on canned profiles .
>
> Given the $200 price, while it may appear a bit expensive to desktop  
> users
> who are used to plug-in prices, it is a huge boon to 7/9000 series  
> owners. The
> present release supports prints up to 36" long. This is a limitation  
> expected to
> be overcome in the future, but for now it means that a 24 x36 print  
> can be
> made on a 7000 and a 44x36 on a 9000. Not bad for a couple of hundred
> bucks. Because of this limit, the company doesn't claim to support the  
> 9000,
> but the software runs the printer just fine.
>
> The other amazing innovation is a feature called the blender.  It  
> makes it
> possible to choose two profiles and make a print using a blend between  
> the
> two that can be adjusted via a slider in 1% increments.  As a result,  
> I was able
> to make one 2200 profile with only the gray and black (MK) , and  
> another
> using those two plus cyan. Since the UC  gray/black by themselves are
> extremely warm, making a "cool" profile and then blending the two  
> allowed
> me to fine tune the print color to whatever I thought was "neutral".   
> Of course
> this doesn't overcome the fact that a black and a single gray won't  
> ever
> produce as smooth a highlight dot as using 2 or 3 grays, but the  
> feature can
> be used on 6 color machines where one or two "toners" can be loaded in  
> 2
> positions with 4 more available for a black and 3 grays. Needless to  
> say,
> those who like darkroom-style selective cross-toning (say warm  
> highlights,
> cool shadows) will find this very easy to do and control, since the  
> profiles to be
> blended are user-defined.
>
> Some caveats for first time users:  I believe that if you have a print  
> of a perfect
> scale (which the company may supply as part of  the release package),  
> you
> can make a pretty decent profile by eye.  By using supplied profiles  
> as a
> starting point, that shouldn't be too difficult.  However, I find it  
> faster and better
> to do the job using a densitometer.
>
> Considering that profiles can be shared, I foresee that as more people  
> begin
> to use IJC, we'll see a lot of profiles changing hands. To that end, I  
> set up a
> folder for this list under IJC (Files section) in order to help with  
> the exchange.
> People with densitometers  can then share their profiles with those  
> that don't
> have one.  I would say that first time users, in general, should allow  
> for a bit of
> a learning curve. Unless you can use one of the shipping profiles,  
> making
> your own may take some getting used to.  I say it's worth it down the  
> line,
> considering the benefits - your mileage may vary, of course.
>
>
> There are other aspects of IJC that we can discuss as well as changes  
> we can
> all suggest  for future releases. I'll leave those for the time when  
> more people
> here have the software and can participate. According to bowhaus,  
> shipments
> should begin next week (for now Mac OS 9).
>
> Antonis
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "owenpevans"
> <owenpevans@r...> wrote:
>> InkJet Control SoftwareHi all,
>> I received this today and thought some of you may be interested!.
>>
>> Owen P. Evans
>
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