Digital BW, The Print

Hi I'm new here,

Presentation:
Bo Wrangborg - Sweden - now entering the arena och Quad(Hex) BW-
printing . 55 years old - amateur since the late fifties!
Hobby- darkroomer/photographer. Now getting into the the new
era - with a "digital eye"! (Ok been experimenting since february
- than buying looots of stuuff! It's expensiv and its fun!
Lets have fun!
Filmscanner 4000 dpi, Flatbed Epson 1200 photo waiting for my Epson 
2450, Haselblad MF, pentax 35 mm, computer - colourspider, etc etc 
but who cares!

OK!
I also ordered VM-ink from MIS - yesterday!
I also have an 1290 Epson as mensioned in the inlay before mine
- that now appears not to be incompatible with the US-modell...1280??

Softwareproblems??

I just installed Win-XP and noticed that the library 
x:\windows\system\COLOR - IS MISSING - isn't it here that old 
Windows/photoshop etc had it's colorprofiles....shall I make a new
one here! It make sence thinking after? Hmmm... or is there 
a "LINUX" -way of doing it - by eqvivalate liberaries with different 
names - hmmm. It's still windows - I bet I can't! (Help...or??).
I have not had the time yet to create that directory - but Photoshop 
schould really need it I think - OK making some modification to the 
windows register ... hmmm...

OK - it for helping myself getting use for the VM-inks when they 
arrive - for my 1290 Epsy.
Hey, I don't like this if windows XP is changing it's structure...
I might be wrong - but I have heard NT4-people have difficulties 
running ICC properly in that OP-system - is XP the same?

OK - I might be out in the blue - however I throu that question out
in this group!

Does VM-inks work with Win 98SE??? It did with Win-ME so why not?
Then dual boot for me! I'm certainly not installing Win Me (Swedish 
version anyhow - since we have had lot of trouble here with that one -
me included...many nights to try that one for me - will not repeat 
that!)

Anyhow - this was my first inlay - and I might be all wrong here!
Am I?

Bo Wrangborg
Sweden





--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Bernhard Ess" 
<albatros.bee@w...> wrote:
> I called MIS today and ordered 4 bottles of VM inks, I will simply 
try them
> out on my current 1160 - if I like it I can see if I get an 
additional 1290,
> but if the cooler curves are pretty much the same as the FS, why go 
on with
> those? In this case the VM set just gives you greater freedom :-)
> 
> I am waiting curiosly...
> 
> Greetings Bernhard
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: " Ruhrfoto/Bernd L." <ruhrfoto@y...>
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y...>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 9:43 PM
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: MIS VM ink with 1160 or 1290?
> 
> 
> Paul, Bernhard,
> under Windows ME it was possible to run the 1290 with the 1280
> driver. Using Paul´s curves. I got prints in "piezo-quality" (16 bit
> file, 2880dpi printing possible).
> Meanwhile I switched to WinXP. Now I can´t run the 1290 with an
> 1280 driver any longer. As there is no German 1290 WinXP driver
> available yet,  I downloaded an English 1290 WinXP driver from
> the   www.Epson.co.uk   site.
> this combo works, but my 1290 prints became rather flat now
> and with my old monitor settings I have no WYSIWIP any longer.
> Have to calibrate the system again (using a custom dot gain
> curve), but have not finished it so far. So my results are
> preliminary.
> Bernd
> PS:
> Bernhard, if you buy an 1290 with MIS VM HEX there will probably
> be no need for an 1160 with MIS FS any longer.