Digital BW, The Print

Steve,

On the PC running the IP 5.6 eval, I really didn't find the IP color prints to be any better than the Epson driver prints using, as you said, Epson profiles and proper color mgmt techniques. But, the IP color prints were different, as follows:

1. Ever so slightly less warmth and saturation. Easily remedied with an adjustment layer if an exact match to the Epson print is what's desired.

2. Slightly less contrast which helped the shadow areas.

3. White and near white areas (such as in clouds) printed with more separation and just seemed brighter (glow?).

4. The rendering of blue sky was more pleasing to my eye when compared to the Epson driver print.

Grayscale, however, is a different matter. Using a "gray" profile with tint 50,50 produces, to my eye, a dead neutral print. Using the tint picker set to 100,100 produces a very nice warmer rendering though not as warm as, say, Paul's warmer curves for the UT inkset. I haven't had a chance to compare the same print with the closet UT print because when I fired up the 1160, yesterday, the grays were totally clogged! I damped the parking pad with Fantasik and will try, again, tonight.

So far, for me it seems that grayscale printing is where IP really shines. But, shines enough to shell out $400-$500? We'll see...I'm still playing.

Alan Huntley

> 
> From: "Steve Kale" <stevekale@...>
> Date: 2003/10/13 Mon PM 01:42:50 EDT
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] ImagePrint 5.6
> 
> Thanks.  I got there in the end.  Another web page that does not work properly with 
> Safari.  (I got access to the profiles when I used IE.)  FYI I am using a G4 and had no 
> problems with the install.  All works ok - ignore IPManage.  However, it is very 
> difficult to evaluate the prints due to the demo watermark which covers EVERY inch of 
> the page.  At the moment I have printed just one colour A3 print and will next print a 
> B&W image.  So far I am seriously wondering whether the colour prints are ANY better 
> than using the Epson driver with a decent ICC profile for the media/printer 
> combination and proper colour mgt....
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "J. Gilbert Plantinga" 
> <jgp@g...> wrote:
> > You have to download them separately:
> > 
> > http://www.colorbytesoftware.com/downloads.htm
> > 
> > I wish that was my only problem :-)
> > 
> > Gilbert
> > 
> > On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 12:43  PM, Steve Kale wrote:
> > 
> > > If I launch IP anyway I don't get any colour profiles for specific 
> > > printer/mediaa
> > > combinations.....
> > >
> 
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