Digital BW, The Print

Sounds great to me. I have never had the time to learn to make the things 
and if I knew I could get good ones from the hands of experts, $50 each, for 
a package or whatever, would be a bargain.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "john dean" <deanwork2003@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 2:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Solving this BW tonal management issue . . .


I think this is an excellent idea. Roy and his associates have done a
fantastic job of providing folks with curves and profiles for QTR for
so many machines and inksets and hue tonalities. It comes to a point
where the vast number of possible permutations of inksets and
machines, along with the continual updating of Mac and PC Os'... well,
we just can't expect this to continue forever.

I for one like the idea that the makers of QTR continue to provide all
this extra support or farm it out, but they should charge for it. The
$50 per profile sounds reasonable, or there could be a package of a
few profiles or something. However, as Steve pointed out, there are
variations in all of these printers, even the newer ones. Personally I
think what is needed is both - a wide assortment of generic profiles
for a fee as well as custom created monochrome profiles for specific
machines, similar to what Jon Cone did with Piezzo I Quads. Look, we
all know that some people are more capable of doing this than most,
and the more they do it the better they get, but nothing is free in
this world.

John
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So, is there not someone out there with the time and inclination to
> provide BW profiles for printer/ink/paper combinations? This could
> be done by charging a customer a "first time" or "royalty" fee of $50
> for a profile, with this money going to Roy. On top of that would be
> an additional fee for the first profile and any additional profiles
> (for other papers, etc.). This is an idea whose time has come. It
> would expand Roy's income, it would relieve a tremendous amount of
> suffering on earth, and it would cut into Epson's profits on wasted
> ink and paper.
>
> Any takers on this?
>
> Walt
>






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