Digital BW, The Print

Paul

We are not talking about colour profiles here.  Rather we are talking about
QTR Create ICC profiles which are used with a B&W workflow.

Steve


> From: "Paul D. DeRocco" <pderocco@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 21:53:32 -0700
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Re: printing with Epson ICC profiles
> 
>> 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.
> 
> --
> 
> Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
> Paul                mailto:pderocco@...