Digital BW, The Print

Steve,

Not so sure about your pessimism. The Epson profiles are made for them by 
X-rite, and are probably made with equipment and expertise that are not 
available to most of us. So calibrating our printers so that they make best 
use of those top-quality Epson profiles means that we might get far better 
results than trying to make decent custom profiles ourselves with far less 
expertise and probably lesser equipment and software.

Agree with you that it doesn't do anything for B&W if you are using the AB&W 
option. Whether it would improve B&W in color mode (for those wanting to use 
color and B&W in a print) remains to be seen.

Bob Frost.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Kale" <stevekale@...>

Not sure that you will get much from it versus a custom colour profile.  It
is designed to realign the printer driver LUTs to normalise output.  But you
still need to do the exercise for each Epson paper, ie each LUT.  Unless you
are trying to standardise things such that multiple machines can use the
same profiles (rather than trying to store a different profile set for each
machine) it is unlikely to be advantageous.  The only real exception is if
the LUTs are so far out-of-whack with the output that the CMM and custom
profile are being over-extended.  At any rate, it's a colour profile
workflow option/solution and not very helpful for B&W.