Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale 
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
> Sounds like you have something that would be of a lot of help to 
the Black
> Only community.  Hopefully you can make these profiles available to 
people.
> BTW what workspace and Epson driver gamma do you use?
> 


I print with an Epson 9500 and the Fiery RIP at the moment, with inks 
from Image Specialists using what MIS labels as Eboni black.

It's a little different from that. From what I have done, you need to 
start with a real CMYK profile for your printer, that limits things 
to about 5% of people that use most of the printers, as you need a 
real full color RIP. There may be other ways to do it, but I haven't 
tried them yet. And making them available for other people would be 
fine if they were using the same printer, ink, paper, RIP 
configuration that I use. Chances of that are increasingly slim, 
especially since I am possibly moving to a new ink set (that's 
today's work). I'll have to check into what it needs from a 
measurement file, maybe it is something that can be offered as a 
service for a reasonable fee. If there is a way to make it work with 
the "normal" RGB workflow, then this could be of real widespread 
benefit to the BO crowd. Guess I need to read through the book to see 
what it really needs. Would be nice if you only needed a bunch of 
steps from a test pattern, but I have a feeling there is more 
involved.