Digital BW, The Print

My guess is that if enough prospective customers for a given printer 
asked them to profile a new-to-ImagePrint combination of ink and 
paper, Colorbyte would at least try to do it. But I'd also talk to

<http://www.chromix.com/>

and

<http://www.profilecity.com/products/profile.html>

about their interest in doing it. Custom profiles for as many as ten 
ink-and-paper combinations can, for example, be as little as $70 
apiece at CHROMiX. How they would feel about more than one of us 
dividing up the ten among us, I don't know. But "one-offs" are as 
little as $99 each at both CHROMiX and ProfileCity. And that's for 
printer-specific profiles.

I'm not an expert, but I don't think profiles which are only 
model-specific would be a good value. And even for a given printer, 
I'd consider buying a new profile after buying ink or paper from a 
new batch of it - when paper and ink manufacturers or suppliers will 
help with that. Even when batch-to-batch differences are small, I'm 
not sure the printers themselves don't change over the course of 
their lifetime.
--
Sam


>Sam  -
>
>At last check Colorbyte Software (Imageprint makers) would only 
>profile Ultrachrome inks on the 2100/2200, 7600, 9600 printers.  It 
>seems that one should be able to profile other ink/paper 
>combinations using Imageprint, but they won't do it.  Maybe someone 
>on this list has already profiled this.  If so, on the Epsons one 
>profile should be very close on someone else's Epson of the same 
>model.
>
>Tom Baker
>
>Bernhard Ess <albatros-@...> wrote:
>Sam McCandless wrote:
>>>That's where Imageprint comes in.  It
>>>  is a RIP developed with the primary purpose of serving photographers
>>>  needs, both in terms of utility and image quality.
>
>Will the ImagePrint RIP also work with the MIS Ultra Chrome compatible color
>inks? Or if not, what would have to be done to make it work like the
>original Epson inks?
>
>>>  The RIP's are all more or less expensive. [snip]
>>
>>  Maybe Tom was, probably with good reason, thinking in a Microsoft
>>  Windows context when he wrote this, because Roy Harrington makes his
>>  Quad Tone Rip (QTR) available at no charge on
>>
>>  <http://harrington.com>
>>
>
>As I am on a PC I would have to get - next to Win XP - a Linux installation
>for printing. Would I have to get also a dedicated graphic applicaiton or
>could I just switch to Linux to print out my photos I edited under PS/ Win
>XP?
>
>regards, Bernie
>
>
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