Digital BW, The Print

Yes the biggest thing Epson is missing is greyscale colour management for
ABW.  (Although there are some practical limitations on its introduction.
It is impossible to profile every possible combination of ABW settings.) But
for $50 it is now available elsewhere. You don't have to have a perfectly
linear device and you don't want linear L* output.


> From: Greg <dfaprinting@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 18:49:47 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Epson Colorbase miscellany
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Frost"
> <bob@f...> wrote:
>> Greg,
>> 
>>> and that should also extend to the ABW printing.
>> 
>> It doesn't; Epson says it only works in color mode.
>> 
> 
> Hard to believe that they wouldn't use the linearized settings to run
> the ABW mode too, that's just stupid. I guess the easiest way to find
> out for certain is to make a linearization that is intentionally wrong
> and apply it.
> 
> I hope all the US/Canada users will scream until this is released.
> Since I don't own one of these printers, it's of passing interest to me.
> 
> And why no printable PDF for the user manual! That always makes me
> angry.