Digital BW, The Print

You actually don't want it to be linear.  The Epson driver is doing things
"correctly" but with poor colour ink management.  QTR has good ink
management and with QTR Create ICC brings the right luminance management to
the table also.  Don't expect the best results if you are only using half
the RIP.


> From: Shilesh Jani <shilesh.jani@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:09:51 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: printing with Epson ICC profiles
> 
> The "depth of the blacks":  I am sure what you are seeing is a larger
> area of black because the Epson driver compresses the 90-100% very
> severely. In other words, the low-end is not linear, which will always
> make for a more punchy print. But the shadows will not "breath" as well
> as a linearized QTR print. If that's what you like, by all means enjoy.
> 
> Shilesh
>> 
>> Now, I'm no expert QTR nor digital black and white printer (yet) but
> I'm astonished how much better the ICC prints are. There is no
> comparison in the blackness and depth of the blacks. The ICC print
> leaps out at me compared the flat QTR print.