Digital BW, The Print

Thursday, December 11, 2003, 7:16:34 PM, you wrote:

>>I did not see it as any better than any of the other "workflows"
>>suggested around the Epson driver with Epson's OEM inks.\ufffd What did 
>>you find so "best" about it?\ufffd I saw pretty much the same amount of 
>>color casts and metamerism as I see usually.

s> You saw pretty much the same? Are you sure you're following the 
s> workflow as outlined? The prints that result from my machine come out
s> cool-neutral with good tonality and no color shifts across densities.
s> There is some plugging up of shadows around 5%. And yes, there is 
s> some annoying metamerism but not nearly as much as, say, a color 
s> managed and profiled paper/printer/ink combo printed conventionally.
s> Every method I've tried, with the exception of the Black Only method
s> which to my eye is grainy, has color shifts. In other words 80% black
s> will have a neutral tone but 50% black will go magenta and then 45%
s> will be even more magenta then 30% will go neutral, and so on. This
s> method doesn't result in that.

s> Methods I've tried include Photoshop correction curves, color managed
s> profiles, black only, and conventional Epson printing (and probably
s> more). I totally agree that specialized inks and/or a RIP will yield
s> far superior results, but those require additional purchases and are
s> not stock.

Sandy,

I guess I could agree that the metamerism was not as intense as
usually seen but perhaps I am more sensitive to metamerism than you
may be. Just like you are more sensitive to the dots of BO printing,
while I simply love the BO printing results I get from my 2200 (using
MIS Eboni black that is).

Thanks nonetheless for posting the workflow and your replies.

-- 
Best regards,
 Richard                            mailto:richard@...