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Re: [Digital BW] Job linearizing printer and profiling BW workflow?

2005-08-26 by scott_now_coming

Paul,

FWIW:

I picked up a 4800 Tuesday.

So far, my best prints have been printed using "color" with a RGB file, 
be it a grayscale saved as RGB or a "toned" file ( I've been using a 
Ken Lee curve) saved as a RGB file.

The "BLACK" setting looks nice, EXCEPT for the tone of the Epson PK: 
too blue for my taste.

With the "BLACK" setting, it looks to me as if ONLY the 3 black inks 
are being used. Using a 10X loupe, I could not see any other "color" 
being used.

Even with color inks being used to make B&W prints, it is hard to see 
those "colored inks" with that 10X loupe.

Just my 2 cents worth. : > )

Scott

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark" 
<paul.roark@v...> wrote:
> 
> 
> > ... for ABW on the 2400, ...
> > I feel that the screen match is still variable, image to image, in
> > predicting the print.  ...
> 
> I have not done a lot of printing with the 2400 yet, but in my initial
> experiments I was amazed that the density varies as one changes the 
settings
> with the AB&W tone controls.  Am I missing something?
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com

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