Digital BW, The Print

Thanks for the great links Steve ... Joe

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale 
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
> See the following site.  I would strongly recommend these profiles 
over the
> Epson ones for the papers profiled.
> 
> http://lenscraft.com/profiles/
> 
> For B&W, if you are on a Mac you should explore QTR....
> 
> http://harrington.com/QuadToneRIP.html
> 
> You will probably be dramatically surprised by the increase in B&W
> capability.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Steve
> 
> From: "Joe Thibodeau" <jetcode@a...>
> Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 17:53:54 -0000
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Newbie's luck printing B/W on 2200
> 
> 
> I've been having a grand time playing with the B/W capabilities of
> the 2200. In fact I've been having better luck with B/W than with
> color. I've been able to get some rather nice prints out of the 
2200
> with little tweaking of parameters. And I have been using the color
> mixer in PS7 to adjust the tonality of the print. It's still not
> silver but I am very satisfied with the results using UC inks. I've
> been doing some comparisons with samples from a company that prints
> using Cone Selenium and Sundance inks. I wish I had their sample
> image so I could see if I can match tonality, contrast, shadow and
> highlight detail one to one. Because I have different images the
> best I can do is make visual comparisons of similar areas in each
> image.
> 
> I am simply blown away by the Epson 2200. Of course I have never
> used the other Epson printers with B/W inksets so I have no
> comparison other than the samples from a service bureau.
> 
> I do have a question though. Obviously Epson includes profiles for
> their papers as a means to lock in that market. I want to use the
> Hanahmuele (did I spell that right?) Torchon 285 paper. Any tips 
for
> profiling this paper and other papers?
> 
> Thanks ... I am happy to be printing B/W in daylight ...
> 
> 
> 
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