Digital BW, The Print

Interesting.  Someone should pass this on to Epson.  I simple driver update
telling the driver to fire the LLK instead of the Y would achieve the same
result yet still leave the yellow in for colour.  But what happens to the
range of non-neutral ABW options?



From: bwbonkers <PeterDLevis@...>
Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:43:04 -0000
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [Digital BW] R2400 MIS EZW-4Y ink in Yellow Position

 
 
 

Hi Paul

Thank you for this trick. I have complained in previous posts that
even though the BW prints using ABW mode and full colour ink set are
very good, I always felt that I could see a little colour spoiling
the neutrality of the print. I have just finished printing my first
prints with EZW-4Y ink in the yellow cart and the results are
fantastic. As soon as I printed a 100 greyscale file using the
standard settings the difference was very obvious compared to the
full colour ink set. With the full colour ink set I could see a very
slight yellow/green hue but getting rid of the yellow ink has
produced a very neutral greyscale.

I finally settled on H+05, V-05, best photo and paper set to premium
glossy paper. Premium glossy gave a very slightly better Dmax than
premium semi-glossy paper using Hahnemuhle FineArt Pearl. Dmax I get
is 2.212 I'm using Roy's ICC program to profile paper/ink combo.

This is only my humble observations being a keen amateur. I am still
learning but the prints on Hahemuhle paper are the best I have
managed to achieve to date. I really like this paper.

When using this trick do you print solely using the Epson ABW mode or
is there any other approach you have found to tweak the results. I do
have Roy's QTR and Bowhaus RIP both licenced but I'm getting very
lazy, Epsons ABW mode is so easy to use.

Many thanks

Peter.

 


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