Digital BW, The Print

Andre,

>> Well, the RGB curves turned out to be too difficult for most.  

>I fail to comprehend how this could be. Applying an rgb adjustment 
>printing curve is not only easy it's just plain simple.

For you and I, and perhaps most of posters on this forum, but MIS and I get
a lot of contacts from frustrated and confused novices.  UT-2 has lots of
purposes -- one is clearly to lower the support costs that are mounting.

Also, there is the problem of printers and papers not being uniform.  I
suspect most of the people on this list just use the stock, pre-made curves.
When they have a flat spot, they just get frustrated.  

I want to get rid of as many of those flat spots as possible (and the Epson
driver with UT-2 and no curves does this), and I want to make the curves
much easier to modify.  

I have an RGB neutral curve for the UT-2 inkset that has the sepia toner
essentially turned off.  The main raw carbon (now magenta) and cool ink (now
cyan and not a light toner) curves then each have only 3 points in them.  No
more roller-coasters.  (Well turning the toner off takes a very steep curve,
but that can be left alone if one wants to modify the neutral curve for a
new paper.)

I don't want to oversell the UT-2.  Everything is a compromise, but I think
the compromises in this inkset make it a very versatile one that both
novices and many power users will appreciate.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com