Digital BW, The Print

Hi - perhaps a bit out of digitalBW - however IT must work?
 
one more thing about win-xp and the quad - system....
I have it confirmed - The ColorVision Spyder - is incompatible with
Win XP. Had an answer from them - stating that they are "working on 
IT"! I didn't work in NT4 either - they had time to work on it - 
however now NT4 is soon leaving the arena - a new Spyder is released
in some weeks (that can handle LCD's as well) Out with XP for now!? - 
How can one work with quads without a calibrated monitor and OS that 
gives questions about colorhandling?

As I'm doing color as well - hmmm - let the youngsters do the work 
until SP3 is here and the Spyder works!

Sorry, you might allready now this - but it was a surprice for me...
But it might be to help for someone going into this with a new OS - 
with all what that means...

Back to basics!


Look for prices over ther for a 1280 Epsy instead of an European 1290 
and a 110-->220 Volt transformer? Anyone out there who 
have "rechipped" an 1290 to 1280?
I want to do Quad!

Anyone have got a solution (exept for bying an EZcolorequipmen)to 
tweak XP - so I can use MIS VM-quad and a 1290 Epsy? 
Win 98Se - that is max 512 meg memory! but working!

Back to work!

BosseW
  

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., bossew@v... wrote:
> 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.