Digital BW, The Print

I don't get it. One of the things that Clayton has done is to simplify the 
workflow for the 2400. Why don't you just print an image (a photograph) and 
see what it looks like. If you are not careful, you will be overtaken by 
paralysis by analysis.

Gary


www.pbase.com/garyallenbrown
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TK Thompson" <tktincnm@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 12:50 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] 2400 Ink Cnfiguration COlor Density


Hi All:

I have run across a perplexing problem while printing B&W with my
Epson R2400 printer.  I am using Clayton Jones' recommended settings
(Paper Type : Velvet FIne Art; Quality:Best Photo; Print Option :
High Speed; COlor Management: Advanced B&W; Ink Config: -5% Color
Density; TOne: Light; Printer Profile: No Color Management; Image
Profile: Dot Gain 20%; 16 bit Greyscale; 720 dpi; Print COlor:
Neutral).  I ran a test print of a 21 step steptablet and wanted to
further reduce the ink loading.  I reduced the Ink Configuration to -
10% from -5 % and there was no observed change in ink density on a
testprint.  I then tried -15%, - 25%, and all the way down to - 50%
on the color density slider with the same results - no observable
reduction in ink density!  Minus 50&% is all the lower the slider
goes.

I contacted Epson tech support and their reply was "The effect is
very slight and can be hard to see.  Try adjusting it down even
further, or adjust in PhotoShop to reduce the amount of
saturation/black levels."  So much for tech support!

Has anyone out there ran into this problem - the non-working color
density slider under Ink Configuration in the Epson printer driver
with Print with Preview out of PS CS2 using a R2400?

Thanks in advance,

TK Thompson









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