Digital BW, The Print

Hi Lou,

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "ldina" 
<lbdina@c...> wrote:
> Nick,
> Glad the tutorial was of help and that you like the program.  I 
> love it.

Yes. It used to take me days to tweak the quad tone curves for a new 
paper and still I couldn't get it right.

> IJC will accept density or L* readings directly.  No need at all 
> to convert from L* to density.  If you use L* readings, you leave 
> the slider on the left hand side of the graph set to "0", which 
> plots your Aim points in a straight line.  This is appropriate for 
> linear L* readings.  

Actually I got confused. I was really using the L* value. It must 
have been late and somehow I thought the software worked differently.

> I haven't figured out how to get density readings directly from 
> EyeOne Share, but will take a look now that you mentioned it.  I 
> was wondering if the GM software allowed you to do that.

No. As I found out that it only gives you L* reading, not density.

> I'm getting some fantastic results just with the Epson UC inkset.  
> Can't wait to try dedicated B&W inks, but I want to get another 
> printer before converting my 2200 to dedicated B&W.  I'm not 
> interested in switching back and forth, as I do a lot of color.

I'm still using the old 1160 printer so I have to have a dedicated 
b/w inkset. But this IJC/OPM software is making me giving the 
variable tone inkset a second thought. It was just too tough to 
create good PS curves to control them. With IJC/OPM this should be a 
breeze.

--nick