Digital BW, The Print

Paul

I have been using this setup for a few weeks now and think that the BW prints I'm getting 
are the best todate. I'm using Roy's ICC program to profile and Epsons ABW mode. Simple !

You mentioned that you slide the ABW controls up towards yellow end substantially, what 
do you mean by substantially. I'm using Hahnemuhle FineArt Pearl and Ilford Smooth Pearl. 
The settings that I am using are H+03/V+12 and H+04/V+16 respectively. These give 
what appear to me as neutral prints. Interestingly with standard yellow cart the settings 
would have been something like H+05/V-10. However I have nothing else to compare 
them with apart from past prints. When you work on your own its hard to judge if you have 
got it right. When I compare my past prints with my present ones the old prints look 
terrible !! At the time I thought they were OK. Would appreciate any comments.

Regards Peter
> 
> The ABW with Y=EZW is considerably smoother than the ABW with yellow
> installed.  With the yellow removed, you slide the ABW controls up toward
> the yellow end substantially to get the same, for example, neutral, print.
> This cuts out a lot of the cyan and magenta.  So, it's not just that the
> yellow is gone, but also the LC and LM that were used too offset it are also
> gone.  This improves smoothness, longevity, and metamerism.  (And it makes
> me feel better knowing that the least amount of color pigs are used.)