Digital BW, The Print

Hi Steve,

The epson advbw was a tad on the warm side. In order to get it to 
print with the same appearance as what I was seeing on the profiled 
monitor I had to adjust the advbw controls to add contrast. There 
would then be a slight gray shading outside the image area on the 
page. For printing dead neutral prints one after the next IP makes 
it look easy. I experimented with the 4800's advbw and I had a 2200 
before with the mis inkset. I made good prints with the mis and 
quite a bit of work. The 4800 advbw was better. IP is way ahead of 
both, at least with the 4800. Dmax on luster paper is much higher 
than anything else I have used. On matte it is much better.
I managed to get on as a beta tester for the "phatte black" system 
from colorbyte which allows the installation of the matte black cart 
in the light light black slot. By selecting the appropriate 
colorbyte generated profile it uses the matte ink or photo black ink 
without need for cart changes. That is something else I was never 
able to do in the past. Going from matte to photo paper with the 
click of the mouse is very very nice. IP's rip does not need the L L 
black cart for color or b&w. I think the only reason epson added the 
third black tone ink was an attempt to compete with mis and other 
third party b&w inkset producers. The rips, at least IP still has 
epsons b&w efforts beat by a considerable margin I think.



charlie


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "steveabrink" 
<steveabrink@y...> wrote:
>
> Sorry Charile I can't help you with your sepia question but I'm 
> wondering if you could share with us how Image Print compares in 
> general for black & white vs. just using the 4800's Adv black 
white 
> driver...? 
> Thanks!
> SteveB    
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Charlie" 
> <psiempyo@h...> wrote:
> >
> > I am a new user of image print. I am using an epson4800 and with 
IP 
> > 6.1 and it prints wonderfully neutral b&w. I want to make some 
sepia 
> > prints and the tint utility in IP gives me exactly the amount of 
> > warming I want on the monitor (I keep my monitor calibrated) but 
when 
> > the print comes out the tint is barely noticable even with the 
tint 
> > turned up all the way in IP.
> > If anyone else has experience with this type of issue with IP I 
would 
> > love to hear about it!
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Charlie
> >
>