Digital BW, The Print

Joel Beeson wrote:

>Ok, I got the printer working after doing what Epson Tech Support told me to 
>do...that is go through 10 nozzle cleaning cycles with the Epson color carts.
>
>I have reinstalled the MIS VM carts and am using Somerset Photo Enhanced 
>Velvet. I tried printing a file out of PhotoShop (toned it, converted to grayscale, 
>applied Roark curve for neutral and converted back to RGB). The image looks 
>awful. After I applied the Roark curve, it lost a lot of shadow and highlight 
>detail and became very contrasty.
>
>What am I doing wrong?  The image looks better w/o the Roark curves, but 
>exhibits some posterization/metamerism-look on the Somerset.
>  
>
1) The Roark Curve needs to be applied AFTER you convert back to RGB..

2)  your color management in the printer driver needs to be disabled

3)   If you're working with Photoshop 7, you also need to "Print with 
preview" and set the "print Space" Profile to "same as source."

 
Keith Krebs

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