Digital BW, The Print

Monitor Spyder with PhotoCal or OptiCal from Colorvision to profile the monitor - this is the most important calibration step.

Take you pick of printer profiling programs - if you get PhotoCal or OptiCal you may want to buy one of their packages which include printer profiling software.

OEM means Original Equipment Manufacturer - i.e. Epson as you surmised.

Good luck!

Maris Lidaka Sr

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JackG" <jackg@poboxes.com>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 9:27 AM
Subject: [Digital BW] For Steadman/To Piezo or Not to Piezo...that is a question.


| Good Morning Steadman,
| 
| If you are in the USA, have a happy Thanksgiving, if not, have a great
| weekend.
| 
| After Christmas I will have the time to start experimenting with the digital
| B & W process.
| 
| For photoshop6.1 only, I am using a  dual Mac G-4 with one gig of ram,
| Polaroid SS4000 film scanner, Microtek Scanmaster 4 flatbed, Yamaha CD
| burner, Wacom tablet and an Epson 1270 for a printer using their inks. I use
| Hasselblad for work and a Nikon F5 plus an 8008s for vacations.
| 
| Would you have a ball park figure as to what you think it would cost to set
| up a system for making the Piezo prints?
| 
| As you can see I do not have a system to calibrate the above and I get the
| impression that this would be important to do. What equipment do you
| recommend? I want to keep using the 1270 for Epson Inks.
| 
| I have been following, or that is trying to follow this list for some time
| and I am still confused about a lot of things. For instance, as a simple
| question, I still haven't figured out what OEM actually means. I guess it is
| the actual inks from Epson.
| 
| Thanks,
| 
| John in OKC
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