Digital BW, The Print

On 6/4/03 11:52 PM, "Martin Wesley" <mwesley250@...> wrote:

> What you describe sounds really great but what do you need in terms of
> instrumentation to build the profiles? Sorry if this is repetitive but since
> it is a Mac only product I didn't follow the threads.

A densitometer...and Ink Jet Control which currently only runs on Mac OS9 or
under classic on Mac OSX.  Your X-rite will work great for the densitometer.
I also use excel to track my progress during profiling but that is certainly
not required.  

Ink Jet control isn't for everybody...many users will be satisfied with the
free Open Printmaker application which runs IJC profiles made by other
people.  Antonis and I made some profiles on his 2200 on Saturday and then I
ran them on my equipment...they were ok...but certainly better after I made
a couple of readings and a minor tweak to exactly tune the profile into my
specific 2200...took about 15-20 minutes.  You don't have that capability
with Piezo...you are stuck with the average of Jon Cone's printers...which
he has many times admitted vary widely in performance...but for the power
user I think IJC is by far the most flexible tool out there and is giving me
the best prints I've ever gotten.  One thing that I've learned in the last
year is that print quality critically depends on accurate profiles...this is
particularly true for BW.

Robert