Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, 
"nevnevsf" <nev@s...> wrote:
> I've written a program that produces ICC profiles for Quadtone 
(or 
> Hextone, for that matter) printers. It attempts to reduce the 
> visibility of dots and to provide smooth gradients. Although I 
don't 
> plan to release the software (it has no GUI and I don't plan to 
build 
> one) I'd like to post profiles it produces to the group but I don't 
> know how. Moderator, could you help me?
> 
> So far I've only profiled the Epson 1160 using MIS Full 
Spectrum 
> Quadtone inks on Epson Enhanced Matte paper. For the time 
being I'm 
> providing this free to anyone who wants to use it, subject to 
> copyright of course. I'm still developing the software so the 
profiles 
> will change over time.
> 
> The 1160 printer settings should be:
> 
> Matte Paper - Heavyweight
> Color mode checked
> 1440 DPI
> High Qualtiy Halftoning
> High Speed: Off
> 'Color Controls' selected, Automatic mode, all sliders at 0
> 
> 
> Some of the features of the profile are:
> 
> - Standard ICC profile, so it should work with any 
ICC-compliant 
> software, such as QImage and Photoshop. 
> - Uses standard Epson driver (of course) which means no 
weird 
> interface to learn
> - Far fewer dots than the Epson driver alone, but not as dotless 
as 
> the Cone driver plugin
> - Supports "preview" mode in Photoshop (and other software 
using 
> ICC-based previews). Preview mode is a very nice feature 
since you can 
> keep the file as a color file, switch to Preview with this profile, 
> and tweak the RGB channels to create different B&W effects. I 
> recommend you do all tweaking in Preview mode since the 
profile does 
> alter the grey output somewhat (to be fixed in a future version). 
The 
> preview is fairly accurate.
> 
> Known problems:
> 
> - The greyscale isn't properly calibrated (I don't have a reflective 
> Q60 target. I'll have to order one soon... Anyone willing to 
donate 
> one? :-) ).
> - There are still dots, but I'm slowly convincing myself that dots 
are 
> OK as long as the gradients are smooth
> - It's rather large. I haven't bothered to reduce the size yet.
> 
> Note that this is an ALPHA version. I welcome feedback but 
please 
> don't expect me to support your color management efforts. 
> 
> - Steven Kasapi

I have a 1160 and use MIS FS inks, I would be very pleased to 
have your profiles, if you have a list please include my name.  

Ron Norman