Digital BW, The Print

Thank you Paul! 

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> From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
> [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On 
> Behalf Of Paul D. DeRocco
> Sent: quinta-feira, 29 de setembro de 2005 01:54
> 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 
> 900+ 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@...
> 
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