Digital BW, The Print

Paul,

Thanks for your input...as usual it is very helpful. I have been looking at the PFP spectro since I already have calibrated my monitor with their Spyder 2....I will most likely pick one up (after Christmas and college tution payments for two daughters) if there are any funds left over.  

Jeff

PS - After your suggestion I did try the MIS K4's LK, LLK and EZW...very nice improvement over the UC K3's...thanks.
 
Paul Roark <paul.roark@verizon.net> wrote:                                  I don't have an answer for you, but with any rip (or even to get the best
 results from ABW) you'll want a spectro.  The one that comes with the PFP is
 good.  I'm using it now instead of my X-Rite for most purposes.  It can't do
 strip reading, but it's also less than half the price of those that can.
 
 Once you have the PFP spectro and software, you'll want your 2400 profiled
 with it in any case.   I use my 2400 for color output, profiled with the
 PFP, and it's almost perfect - for color.  Frankly I don't use that printer
 for B&W, but I'm sure it'd be fine - if you don't mind the excess of color
 in the image.  I do, so I use other printers for B&W.  If I didn't have
 other printers, needed color in the 2400, and still wanted B&W prints with
 the least color, I'd use one of the rips you mentioned.  I'm not in a
 position to compare the rips because IJC is the only one I know how to use.
 (This will change in the not too distant future, I hope.)
 
 As a first step after getting a spectro, you could make ICCs with QTR Create
 ICC and use them to match the grayscale ramp of your monitor with the output
 of ABW mode prints.  (I suppose you could also do tone soft proofing, but
 I'm less impressed with that need for B&W.)  Create ICC + ABW makes a rather
 nice workflow.
 
 Paul
 
 www.PaulRoark.com <http://www.paulroark.com/>  
 
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 From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
 [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
 trrekrider
 Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 12:29 PM
 To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [Digital BW] which RIP program
 
 I have just started printing B&W photos using either the Epson ABW
 driver on my R2400 or simply converting RGB files to B&W using various
 techniques, soft proofing in CS2 and using the canned ICC profiles
 from the paper manufactures. Now I would like to take the next step
 and begin using a RIP software program. My question is which one to
 use? I have downloaded the QTR and it does not provide much help in
 terms of documentation (at least for me) so I have never used it. I
 have also seen the IJC/OPM website in which they seem to have a very
 good beginners tutorial that was quite helpful but it is also a little
 pricy. I have also seen PFP 2.0 discussed on the forum. Any
 suggestions and/or help would be appreciated.
 
 Thanks,
 
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