Digital BW, The Print

Steve,

I haven't used Eboni yet in the 4000.  I'm going to try some cooler 
papers and see how the MK looks on these papers first.  I made a low 
gamut profile with the i1 for EEM and the UC inks, and although it was 
better than the canned Epson profile there was still a bit too much 
metamerism for me (I have developed zero tolerance for metamerism).  If 
you want to use the UC color inks for B&W a RIP is the way to go, but 
you will have to either wait for Roy to finish the QTR version or pay 
$895 now for IP.

Carl

On Saturday, May 15, 2004, at 02:29  PM, brinkker2000 wrote:

> Carl,
> I take it that to reduce the warm tone of UT matte black, one should
> still use Eboni black ink?  Have you done any comparisons with custom
> printer profiled B&W ...?
> Thanks in advance,
> Steve B
>
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Carl Schofield
> <scho@m...> wrote:
>> Clayton,
>>
>> I've also been doing some BO printing with the 4000 and agree with
>> Steve's conclusions concerning print quality - very nice.  I don't
> see
>> any dither banding in my prints and they look very similar to 2200
> BO
>> prints.  You can't print at 2880 dpi on matte papers with the 4000
>> because when any matte paper media type is selected then only 1440
> dpi
>> is available as the highest print resolution (You also can't trick
> the
>> driver into using 2880 by selecting an RC media type because it
> will
>> then use the PK ink) .  However, I don't think this limits print
>> quality at all on matte papers.  As I noted I couldn't see any
>> qualitative difference between 2200 prints on EEM printed at 2880
> dpi
>> and 4000 prints on EEM at 1440 dpi when viewed with the naked eye.
> The
>> smallest dot size available on the 4000 is supposed to be 3.5 pl,
> but I
>> don't know if that dot size is used when printing on matte papers
> at
>> 1440 dpi.  Roy may have more info on what the dot size
> distributions
>> are for the 4000.  I did make a few high resolution scans of a
> small
>> section from matched 4000 and 2200 prints on EEM and can see that
> the
>> dots are more tightly packed in the 4000 print and also the dither
>> pattern appears slightly different.  I've sent you some scans off
> list
>> for evaluation.
>>
>> Carl
>
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