Digital BW, The Print

Don't get me wrong - I am tempted to buy the printer for colour work
(particularly on semi-matte).  But I would not be buying it for its colour
engine  ;-)  But I have decided to hold off and see what the new release
Epson printers have in store first.  I am disappointed that the rumours
suggest no gloss optimizer (or something to that effect).  I'm hoping that
the so called K3 inks are better than the UCs and not just the UCs with 3
shades of K.


> From: Bob Frost <bob@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 11:38:27 +0100
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Which would you choose?
> 
> Steve,
> 
> I know that; all I'm saying is that, using that setting, I get very good
> color and B&W prints from the R1800.
> 
> Your advice only holds true if you have or can make a better profile than
> that built in to the Windows driver (I have no experience of the Mac
> driver). Of course, if you are using non-Epson papers you will need a
> profile. But I doubt if any profile I can make with an i1Photo and iMatch
> will give better results on Epson paper than the R1800 has as standard.
> 
> Now with my old 1290 and 2100 it was a different story; neither of them were
> very good out-of-the-box, and I had to make profiles even for the Epson
> papers. And that wasn't easy.
> 
> Bob Frost.