Digital BW, The Print

Hello Ed,

>Hi all... I've just gotten a 2400 and am using it to print on Innova 
>F-type Gloss.  I've made QTR-Create-ICC profiles.  Etc.  
> 
>The default ABW setting, Darker, seems.... dark.  Any thoughts on why 
>that's the default?  And what are most of you using who are doing K3 
>ABW printing?

I use the Light setting.  It seems to be the equivalent of printer
gamma 1.8 in the driver's color control mode.  Darker is closer
to gamma 2.2.

I think it's the default because the gray space and image profile
default is more likely to be GG2.2, and they work well together.  But
I get much more open shadows in the print using DG20 for the front end
and printer gamma 1.8 (or Light with the 2400), so I use that.  It
doesn't hurt anything to not use the default, but everything has a
trade-off.  You just have to find the combination of settings that you
like the best.  

Regards,
Clayton


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