Digital BW, The Print

Walt,

I'm curious about your soft-proof comments.  You find the 2.3.0 better
than 2.3.2 ?  I would think the soft-proofs are the same in both as far as the
gray densities -- 2.3.2 just adds color.  (I wouldn't use the Simulate Paper&Ink).

Roy

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "wwodets" <odets@c...> 
wrote:
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale 
> <stevekale@b...> wrote:
> The overall ink load with VFA, EEM, and HPR (almost) is fine.  I have 
> reduced ink load with the ink load adjustment in the driver and this 
> doesn't correct non-linearities.  Nor does the "density" slider.  The 
> light, normal, dark, etc.  setting in the driver seems about shadow 
> compression and the darker setting is what is compressing the 
> shadows.  You can see this in simply visually examining printed test 
> strips.  I believe that this is the correct control to use and will 
> report the numbers tomorrow.
> 
> Steve, also plesee see my last post about the soft proofing.  What I 
> didn't say there is that the canned Epson color profile provides 
> about as good a soft proof as the 2.3.0 profile and a much better one 
> than the 2.3.2 profile.  
> 
> Walt
> 
> 
> >
> > Yes I understand.  Do you have a color density slider under paper
> > configuration?  If so try lowering the overall ink load with this.
> > 
> > 
> > > From: wwodets <odets@c...>
> > > Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > > Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:40:52 -0000
> > > To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Create ICC Soft Proofing question . . .
> > > 
> > >> 
> > > 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.
> >
>