Digital BW, The Print

Alex-

We are all spending 10x more trouble on BW than color... Epson and HP 
and Canon have spent years and millions to make color easy... We are 
the pioneers on BW... But it's worth it!!!!!

Tom O'Connell


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "a_pettit_jr" 
<a_pettit_jr@y...> wrote:
> Hello Terry,
> Yes, I obtained a set or curves from Paul. When I printed a
> 21 step and graduated grey scale, the shading seemed to not
> be linear and the one photo I did print seemed to have flat
> grey areas without tonal variation...
> 
> Are you saying that the curves for the E1270 
> and E1280 are not identical? I thought they were
> the same only with the 1280 being capable of 
> edge-edge prints ....
> 
> I Am Frustrated .. I purchased what I had thought was the
> best (consumer priced) Epson printer only to find 
> six months later that it is the least desirable one to own.
> 
> I am spending 10x more effort attempting to
> get Black&White than I ever did with Color.. Pain !!!
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex P
> 
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> 
> Alex,
> 
> Chances are you have those curves if you got them from Paul. The 
last 
> set we did were the 9th generation. Contact me off list and I will 
> send those curves to you if you need them. I know Paul was working 
on 
> the 1270 curves, but I don't know how far they have progressed. One 
> other thing I forgot to mention, but that you are probably aware 
of, 
> the 2000P curves were written for a PC, not a Mac - the curves are 
OS 
> dependent.
> 
> Terry