Digital BW, The Print

Beautiful warm tone prints with no metamerism.

Carl

On Oct 7, 2006, at 12:06 PM, Steve Kale wrote:

> 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?
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Many thanks
>
> Peter.