Digital BW, The Print

FWIW, I downloaded the Moab Kayenta profiles several months back
for the 2200 and the resulting prints stunk.

It is "astounding," as you point out.

Scott

John Malcolm wrote:

> You would have thought that it was in paper manufacturers interests to 
> provide really
> good quality canned profiles with their products! Having just gone 
> through a process of
> color testing half a dozen papers for an exhibition project, I am 
> astounded at how poorly
> many manufacturers support their products.
>
> As a typical example, Innova have a couple of really nice looking 
> papers, and the
> packaging promises that profiles are available. Well and good except 
> that there are no
> media setting instructions with their profiles! Several phone calls to 
> the UK and I am put in
> touch with their profile expert in the US. Some settings are emailed 
> to me.
>
> The resultant prints are truly awful - pissy mid tones and 
> posterization in the shadows.
> Eventually after downloading BookSmart profiles and with lots of 
> experimentation with
> different media settings, I got decent prints.
>
> I am sure that many of us have been given or bought paper samples to 
> try, only to give up
> and discard them when it becomes a major mission to even get some sort 
> of result for
> evaluation.  You need to have some incentive to invest in the time and 
> money to go to the
> next stage and build or purchase your own profiles.
>
> I would haver thought that canned profiles for download + media 
> settings must figure
> somewhere in Inkjet Paper Marketing 101. Epson seem to have that sussed.
>