Digital BW, The Print

All of Imageprints are model specific.  Apparently, the manufacturing tolerances on the Ultrachrome printers are such that it works fine.  Could be the manufacturing tolerances on the Ultrachrome inks are equally as good.  My experience is that they are great.  Other ink sets may not be as uniform from batch to batch.  I don't know if you could get away with that on other models/printers.
 
Tom Baker

Sam McCandless <samcc@...> wrote:
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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