Digital BW, The Print

An interesting report.  Well we already know how to do the soft-proofing for
any given setting - Carl, give Bruce Fraser a call...

The question I have is tone compression/management.  This is effectively now
a black box in the Epson driver and not open to profiling with conventional
software - not good.  There is no connection/colour management of tonal
compression from the workspace to the print space - change the workspace and
you'll get a different result.  Much like Black Only printing.  This is a
real shame.  It would have been nice if there was a baseline per paper/ink
that had been profiled. At least then the CMM could be used to get you to a
known baseline for tweaking in the driver.

Roy, perhaps it won't be long before we ask you to again brush off that
greyscale profile writer of yours!  By measuring the output of the Epson
driver in B&W mode for a particular setting at least then we could "profile"
the luminance/reflectance axis.  Then we can use the CMM with perceptual
intent to manage tonal compression at least.