Digital BW, The Print

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Morrison" <rmorrison@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 12:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: IJC on w2k ...older macs on PC network???


> 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,

Well our posts are crossing each other at this point!<G>

It sounds very good. The ability to close the loop and tweak profiles for
individual printers is very desirable. Printer to printer variation is much
larger than we realize and accounts for the wide range of success and
failure people report with grayscale ink printing. (Clogging as well as
print quality!)

I sincerely wish I could give it a spin. I guess my wife's ancient Mac
notebook with OS 5 or 6 and 8MB of RAM ($3,000+ in the early 90's!) would
not be worth retrieving from its current paperweight status.<G>

Would it be reasonable to put the printer on a true stand alone network
print server so that both the Windows and Mac boxes could share them
equally?

Thanks,
Martin