Digital BW, The Print

Clayton:

 > I'm wondering if what you're seeing is the result of some kind of
 > driver setting.  There is something in ABW mode called "Highlight
 > Point Shift"

Yes, it seems that the  dealer had applied Highlight Point Shift,  
which I would never use; but that makes wonder whether there would be  
gloss differential when not  applying HPS? In that case, I might not  
switch to a K3 printer because I would still have to laminate the  
prints, and I'm getting stunninf prints by laminating the 9600 UC ink  
prints.


 > >The ImagePrint print has more shadow detail than the one made with
 > >the Epson Driver Advanced B&W mode.
 >
 > ABW settings are also important here.  There is a "Tone" picklist  
with
 > 5 choices from "Light" through "Darkest", and it turns out that this
 > does more than an even change of the over all density.  It turns out
 > that the actual contrast curve is modified so that the shadow zones
 > are increasingly compressed as the setting gets darker. ..
 > For some reason Epson's default setting is "Darker", so
 > we must be careful to put this where we want it.

Interesting: so it turns out the shadow detail could be good.

--Mitch/Bangkok