Digital BW, The Print

Antonis,

Whoops - sorry about that! I usually change the Subject line before 
hitting the send button (I get the digest), but I must have forgotten 
last night.

Carl Schofield just sent me some of his tweaked profiles for OPM and 
the one test print I've done so far is really neutral to my eye (I 
used the blender with his warm and cool curves, 50% each).

As for comparing different printer drivers, I think the profiles play 
a very important part because the idea of a "perfect" print is so 
subjective. That's why OPM/IJC and QuadToneRIP both offer alot of 
promise because of the ability to tweak profiles to suit individual 
tastes. I'm really thrilled to have so many other options to the 
Epson driver with its dubious Grey Balancer software which apparently 
doesn't even work with the American 2200's!

Diana

>Message: 7
>    Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 19:40:24 -0000
>    From: "Antonis Ricos" <antonisphoto@...>
>Subject: Re: OPM/IJC on 2200
>
>Hello Diana;
>
>I tried to restore this thread under its original subject heading 
>and so repeated
>our previous messages below for anyone who wants to follow this. It's easy to
>hit reply and end up with "Digest" as your subject!....
><snip>
>A note about comparing printing software: Comparisons between OPM and
>any other bw printer driver would generally have to assume perfect profiles
>for each, so that the drivers are in fact compared, not the 
>profiles. This gets
>tricky if drivers that rely on canned profiles are fixed to a 
>certain performance,
>while OPM uses custom profiles (made in IJC) that can take into account
>every nuance of your particular set up. This is less of an issue with printers
>like the 2200 using OEM carts, and a bigger problem with CIS-equipped
>desktops and large formats.
>
>I hope you can let us know what you think of the results your are getting.
>
>
>Antonis