Digital BW, The Print

David

As a first step you need to adopt Roy's LAB Grey workspace and perceptual
rendering workflow.  See here:

http://homepage.mac.com/royharrington/FileSharing2.html

That will get your contrast back (I suspect the sharpness is illusory).  Try
that first.

Steve


> From: davidpichevin <davidpichevin@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 04:32:39 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Quadtone RIP Faded print
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am new to this group and found it while searching for information on
> printing B&W.
> 
> I use an Epson 2200. From Photoshop, I can print beautiful color
> prints that are fairly accurate and 95% similar to screen.
> 
> I print on Epson Enhanced Matte paper with Matte Black ink and I have
> tried to print a B&W from Photoshop (RGB). The picture mostly came out
> fine with beautiful sharpness and contrast. However, it seems to
> suffer from what I think is metamerism. Under daylight (or PC monitor
> light), it takes on an ugly greenish tint in many areas.
> 
> Tonight, I have tried to print the same picture with QTR, using the
> 2200 in 1440dpi, choosing a mix of UC EHM cool and warm at 50% (I
> wanted a neutral print), and the print seems to not have the metamism
> and is truly B&W. However, it is very washed out (besides a certain
> lack of sharpness as well) and totally lacks contrast.
> 
> The picture was converted to graysclae then to 20% dot gain gray
> profile (the default one), then saved before importing it into QTR.
> 
> What could give this kind of result? I do not really want to waste a
> lot of paper and ink trying all combinations of settings before
> learning a bit more about the program and how the different settings
> work...
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> 
> David.
>