Digital BW, The Print

> . . . but to make those curves
>work, you need to develop transfer curves for each curve/paper
>combo . . . .

Just to clarify, in case developing transfer curves to each paper/curve
combination sounds intimidating to someone just starting out as it certainly
would to me, the MIS web site has curves for some readily available paper
and MIS ink combinations. As long as you use one of those papers you don't
need to develop your own.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "m87507" <m87507@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 12:08 AM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Printer recommendations, please


If you can find an Epson 1160 (watch the lists), get it, and start
with MIS grayscale inks along with Moab or Red river paper; you will
be thrilled with the results, but there is a learning curve to
master the system. (Hint; start with black-only, then the Epson
driver, then move to the Roark curves...but to make those curves
work, you need to develop transfer curves for each curve/paper
combo.) I would vote then for the 1280 as a second printer...you can
then decide to make your 1160 color and black-only, or the 1280 as
that.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "annekersaway"
<annekersaway@y...> wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Kathy Ryan"
> <kt.ryan@v...> wrote:
> > I currently have an Epson RX500 all-in-one that I use to print
my
> photos. They are pretty good but I want better and bigger. I would
> like to print up to 11x14 which is what my preferred size was in
the
> wet darkroom. And I would like to get rid of, or at least control,
> the slight color cast I get on the RX500 prints.
>
> If I were you (and I'm in the same boat - I want a large format
> printer), I'd wait.
>
> Epson's done quite a bit in the new R800 printer.  It begs for a
> wide carriage version.  With the recent price cuts on the 1280,
and
> Christmas buying season fast approaching, I think a new printer is
> in the wings.  I don't think the 4000 is it.
>
> I have NO inside information to base this speculation on.  Just an
> educate guess on my part.
>
> Until then, work on color management to clear up the color cast in
> the RX500.  That's a good printer (same print engine as the rest
of
> the R printers, IIRC).  When was the last time you profiled your
> monitor?  Does your printer profile match your inks and papers
> you're using?  You'll be fighting the same battle with any
printer,
> so might as well practice on the RX500 while you wait for the next
> generation large format home inkjet.
>
> Anne




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