Yahoo Groups archive

Digital BW, The Print

Index last updated: 2026-04-28 22:56 UTC

Message

[Digital BW] Re: Good B/W prints with epson 2100 / 2200 not possible? I'll bui an Hp 7960...

2004-01-07 by Sam McCandless

At 2:18 AM +0000 1/7/04, Glenn Mitchell wrote:
>[snip]
>I meant to say, I had good results with either:
>
>(1) BO printing with lighter weight Arches Infinity Smooth paper
>
>OR
>
>(2) By applying a final curve before printing.
>
>If you find you have a color cast to your B&W images, you can correct
>them with a Curves or color Balance adjustment layer. then you save
>those settings. You can use them on any other image with the same
>paper and ink combination. You wind up with several settings files,
>for different paper/ink combinations. But it does work.
>
>What it will not fix is metamerism. The only way to fix that is to
>get a different printer driver. ImagePrint Lite RIP makes neutral B&W
>prints that do not evidence metamerism.
>[snip]

Roy Harrington's QuadToneRIP (QTR) does too, doesn't it? Isn't that 
the easiest and least expensive solution, at least for someone 
willing to use a Mac?
--
Sam

Attachments

Move to quarantaine

This moves the raw source file on disk only. The archive index is not changed automatically, so you still need to run a manual refresh afterward.