Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tyler Boley" 
<tyler@t...> wrote:
>
> I heard John Pannozzo (THE ImagePrint guy) give a talk. He mentioned
> he foresaw no advantage to Epson's addition of a 3rd black, and that
> what they were already doing with two was state of the art and
> essentially unbeatable.
> At this same event, quadtone prints ran away with the print 
competition.
> But give him the benefit of the doubt, it would probably be worth
> seeing before judging.
> It seems to me they are developing the product to give users as many
> options with one printer as possible, color, B&W, matte and gloss.
> Tyler
> 

That may be true, but I still think it was done backwards. I know 
that if I had one more black in my 9500 I could produce outstanding 
black and white (as well as better color), but I would also want the 
additional black to be much lighter than Epson's old light black (now 
I call it medium black).

I will also say (again) that this different black setup can be 
accomplished with many good RIPs. Tyler, maybe you could comment on 
how easy it would be to do this with StudioPrint? I can say that with 
the Evolution RIP that I use, this is a simple thing to accomplish. 
With the Evolution RIP, you can put any color into any slot (if the 
chips match) and tell the RIP which slot to connect to which color 
channel. They call it head mapping. I know StudioPrint can do 
something similar, but I'm not well versed with that application.

It may seem like I'm overly against ImagePrint, which is not entirely 
true. IP has it's uses, among them that it is "preconfigured" so that 
there is no messing around. This is good for less technical persons, 
or someone that just doesn't want to be bothered with setting the 
thing up. I feel more control is needed, so I choose a different 
method. Anyone playing with QTR in a serious manner has seen that you 
can build a setup for matte and a setup for glossy so that you don't 
have to change out carts, this IP feature is nothing more than that 
same thing.