Digital BW, The Print

Yes. Yes.

A pity it won't be of much use to B&W as we all know the faults of the
colour driver with respect to B&W.  It's interesting or rather very
unfortunate that they did not provide a mechanism for linearising the AB&W
driver.  But I guess that this is arguably impossible because of the massive
permutations of settings introduced by the tint picker.


> From: Greg <dfaprinting@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:13:37 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] more colorbase misc.
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale
> <stevekale@b...> wrote:
>> to listen to what colour experts such as Bruce Fraser have to say.
> 
> If you take a look at what Mr. Fraser wrote in his book, you'll see
> that he says linearizing a printer is very important! I'd quote the
> page, but the book is at home, and I'm not there.
> 
> Having proper linearization is the foundation of getting good prints,
> after you get far enough away from linear, a profile can only bring
> you back so far. That's why one of the first things you do when
> working with a RIP is linearize the ink output. It is so
> fundementally important that Epson decided to check each x800 before
> it ships (or so they claim), and why HP built this measurement onto
> their newest flagship printers (dj130 and others). It isn't to
> provide printer to printer matches, it is to provide the highest
> quality print possible from that printer/ink/paper combination. The
> ability to do this has been a long time coming, and one reason why so
> many professional printers have purchased a RIP in the past, since
> that was the only way to accomplish this adjustment.
> 
> Well, I've said more on this topic than I really care too. I should
> have simply thanked Ernst (again) for tipping me to another useful
> tool and gone away quietly. My opinion, this Colorbase tool is
> absolutely invaluable for the artist that wants to best output
> his/her printer can give with non Epson inks and papers. Epson may
> have intended this for Epson inks and papers, but everyone can now
> benefit from their wisdom. And Colorbase is not intended to replace a
> custom profile, only to make that profile more accurate.