Digital BW, The Print

Personally I would be wary of the value of that article. The fact that the
colour conversion engine embedded in a printer driver has been improved says
nothing of whether it now exceeds the colour conversion engine embedded in
Photoshop.  It has been, and likely still is, advisable to not use the
driver colour engine but rather PS's and send a file to the driver with "no
colour management".  The printer can't reproduce 1:1 Adobe RGB - it, as the
article acknowledges, has its own colour gamut.  They are simply making the
implementation of ICC profiles and colour management a little easier for
novice users by taking it internally.


> From: Bob Frost <bob@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 09:04:08 +0100
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Which would you choose?
> 
> Sonny,
> 
> Apart from increasing the gamut of the R1800 to 98% of what the printer is
> theoretically capable of (instead of the more usual 80%), Epson have added a
> setting that allows the use of images in Adobe98 without needing icc
> profiles.
> 
> You select Same as Source (or Printer Color Management?) in the PS dialog,
> and then select ColorControls/AdobeRGB in the Epson driver.
> 
> All explained in the following article from Epson -
> 
> http://www.epson.co.jp/e/newsroom/tech_news/tnl0411single.pdf
> 
> Bob Frost.
>