Digital BW, The Print

For BO using Picture Windows, I use the following settings in the
Epson drive:

Media type: photo paper
Print Quality: SuperPhoto at 2880
Color Controls set
Gamma: 1.0
Brightness: +2
Contrast:0 

For many images, with this settings I get reasonable agreement between
print and monitor.

Have fun!

Manuel



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter A. Klein"
<pklein@2...> wrote:
> Thanks, Bob and Clayton.  When you both mentioned dot gain, I 
> thought, "Wait a minute, I'm using Picture Window Pro, not Photoshop, 
> and it doesn't do dot gain."  Then I realized that Paul Roarke had 
> included a grayscale printing curve with some of his inksets. Hmm, I 
> thought, maybe that does what the dot gain profiles do.
> 
> I had one from the Epson 1290 VM set, so I ran a grayscale image 
> through it, and things got a lot lighter on the screen.  It just 
> finished printing as I write this, and things are looking a whole lot 
> better.
> 
> Thanks for jogging my memory in the right direction!
> 
> --Peter
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones" 
> <cj@c...> wrote:
> > Hello Peter,
> > 
> > >Does anyone have some ballpark settings of the Epson 1280 driver 
> for 
> > >BO (black only) printing.  
> > >I had beautiful prints with MIS VM.  Right now with BO I've got a 
> > >nice looking gray scale when I print a step wedge, but things in 
> the 
> > >mid-high range (like flesh tones) are printing a "zone" or more 
> too 
> > >dark.  
> > 
> > > Also, do I need to mess with color space settings in Picture 
> Window 
> > > Pro?  I don't use color management, but I've got the working 
> space 
> > > set at Adobe RGB 1998 as per the hextone workflow.
> > 
> > Several things going on here, probably the work space/printer 
> profile
> > settings are what's doing it.  To have full control in BO printing
> > I've found it's best to keep the image in Grayscale.  This limits 
> the
> > work space setings (the "front end" profile) to the Dot Gain/Gray
> > Gamma choices.  
> > 
> > Briefly, you set the printer profile (the "back end" profile) 
> to "Same
> > As Source".   This ensures that whatever front end profile you 
> choose
> > doesn't affect the print.  Then you set the front end profile to
> > whatever setting makes the monitor image best match the print 
> (trying
> > for good WYSIWYG).  If you aren't sure which to use, I recommend Dot
> > Gain 20% as a good starting point because it's in the middle of the
> > range of the available settings.  Once that is established, if you 
> are
> > unhappy with the print you make changes to the image.
> > 
> > If this all sounds confusing, it is explained in much better detail 
> in
> > article #4 on the web site link below.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Clayton
> > 
> > 
> > Info on black and white digital printing at    
> > http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm