Digital BW, The Print

Well, actually I had a different experience with Gray Balancer than
Tom and most others.  Tom is correct, that the general consensus was
it wasn't worth the trouble.  I may have just been lucky, but after
MANY hours of tweaking the Gray balancer for my particular 2200
machine, I got the best B&W on certain cotton papers that I've ever
been able to achieve.  I've not been able to get as good tonality and
DMax with my 4000 (which replaced the 2200), although I'm getting some
pretty good results with the Quadtone RIP.  My prints with the 2200
and the Gray Balancer not only looked great, but they were essentially
metamerism free.  I was using Eboni black ink in the 2200 with the
Gray Balancer settings.

I suppose I could hack the gray balancer to work with the 4000, but
I've decided it was too much time and pain to do again.  If Roy
Harrington hadn't come up with the Quadtone RIP, I'd be tempted though.

Tony

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tom OConnell"
<tomoc@y...> wrote:
> 
> The gray balancer was a program Epson included in the packages for 
> 2100s in Europe. Fortunately we were never subjected to this abuse in 
> the USA but a few of us went to great lengths to find Euro copies so we 
> could use them on a 2200.
> 
> The general consensus was (very understated IMO) that the best gray 
> balancer did was run up your bill for epson ink and paper...never 
> producing a neutral BW print!!!
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Tom O'Connell
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Graham" 
> <gakousei53@h...> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I came across this site:
> > 
> > http://www.photographical.net/black_and_white.html
> > 
> > which says that in exchange for signing up tp the news letter you can
> > download the Photographical.net Grey Balancer. This is set up to use
> > Picture Windows Pro. image editing software, which is what I use.
> > However the download link seems to be dead.
> > 
> > Does anyone know anything about this software or how to get hold of 
> it?
> > 
> > Graham Telfer