Digital BW, The Print

> From: Greg <dfaprinting@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 16:53:28 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Color Management without instruments (T vs PR )
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale
> <stevekale@b...> wrote:
>> Carl
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Steve
> 
> It should be linearizing the printer to each paper, and that should
> also extend to the ABW printing.

Nope.  But luckily thanks to Roy we can ICC profile Epson Adv B&W output and
use colour management technology at long last.

>It should also allow you to get a
> profile once, and then just keep after the linearization to allow
> that profile to continue working as the printer changes.

Same as re-profiling the printer over time.  Good practice although they are
actually quite stable devices.