Digital BW, The Print

> > On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, John wrote:
> >
> > I am using C86 with EZN inkset.

> From: Daniel Ridings [mailto:daniel.ridings@...]
>
> You don't need the profiles at all and you should, according to Paul's
> page, make sure there aren't any other embedded profiles mixed.
>
> So you don't need "Print with preview". Just use the "Print" if you're
> using Photoshop.

Even so, you're still printing through _some_ combination of settings, which
you only get to see and change if you use Print With Preview, and then look
at the driver properties. The Epson driver doesn't know that you're using
quadtones, so it still does the same thing that it does when printing color.
I would hope that MIS would have provided more guidance, but if they didn't,
it would be easy enough to print step wedges under different combinations of
settings to see what produced the best grayscale.

"Same as Source" does essentially the same thing as "Printer Color
Management" if the driver is in a mode that ignores profiles. So it's
possible that SAS works okay, as long as the driver is set to Color
Controls, instead of ICM/ColorSync. In that mode, the driver is interpreting
the input as sRGB, so is already pretty nicely linearized. That would be my
guess for the right setup, not having MIS's docs at my disposal.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
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