Digital BW, The Print

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Yes, I agree, but it is not the output of the printer that is not 
linearized, it is the output of the ABW driver + printer.  That is why 
I am trying a profile on the light and normal settings in the driver.  
I believe that the normal setting is the linearized output per Epson's 
calibration and that is why "normal" is "darker."  I'll report the 
numbers.

I'll try the color profile for interest re the screen match.


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale 
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
> Your issue here is that there REALLY is a crunch of shadow 
compression in
> your (un-managed) printer response.  This would be fixed if you could
> linearize the output.  So yes you need to try to use the printer 
controls to
> get separation in the shadows perhaps by lowering ink density (adding 
more
> ink is not resulting in more density so back it off a little).  QTR 
ICC has
> a check built in to make sure it is being fed sensible data - there 
is a
> limit to what a profile can fix.
>