Digital BW, The Print

But what are the advantages over a simple custom profile?  This question is
at the heart of the matter.


> From: Ernst Dinkla <E.Dinkla@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 22:47:28 +0200
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] more colorbase misc.
> 
> Steve Kale wrote:
> 
>> 
>> It won't help users of third party inks and paper at all.
> 
> Don't think so. Many third party inks and papers are used with
> the Epson driver + custom profiles. Once you have found
> suitable paper settings in the driver and made the custom
> profile you could keep that new custom profile and calibrate
> (in my view it is more linearise) the printer from time to
> time with the Epson paper the settings were intended for. A
> few sheets at most. Inks like MIS Pro are probably so close in
> specs that the calibration will work. It may even compensate
> the slight difference in densities between the two like it
> would compensate differences between Epson ink batches.
> 
> I have been speculating a bit so far, now I rather wait for
> how it can be used (or hacked).