Digital BW, The Print

> From: Nelson Ricciardi
>
> I'd like to try a custom profile for an Epson 2200 with standard
> inks and
>
> - Epson enhanced matte and
> - Epson velvet fine art papers.
>
> If someone has a custom profile for these combinations, would you let me
> test it?
>
> I have Eye One Display here. I calibrates only monitors.
>
> I'd like to see the difference between the standard profiles and a custom
> profiles before ordering a printer calibrator.

Can't help you with the matte papers, but I used the Eye-One Photo package
to make a custom profile for the 2200 on Premium Semigloss (using the large
900+ patch target), and it came out virtually identical to the stock Epson
profile (the more recent one that comes in different versions for different
resolutions). I even printed a gray step wedge with each, and plotted their
3D Lab coordinates, and they had the same wiggle, indicating the same faint
color shifts. Also, the stock profiles say GretagMacbeth in them, so I
suspect they used the same tool, and didn't do any manual profile editing.

In my opinion, the results are very good for color, but not quite perfect
enough for B&W. Given how nonlinear the Epson driver is, it would take some
major profile editing to null out the color shifts. I think QTR looks more
promising.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
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