Digital BW, The Print

Walker, I'd be curious to know if happened to see a difference in print
quality with the newer Epson 4800 driver? You'll notice that the new driver
6.XX has the same interface look that the 3800 driver has. The old settings
cannot be brought forward into the new driver. New driver new internal ink
limits? Needing new profiles? 

 

Have you run any tests or seen any problems? I admit to being in a bit of a
hurry the other day and rather than have my system hang and require a reboot
several times to confirm that I needed to download a new driver, I followed
the advice of the screen and downloaded the new driver so Qimage would begin
working again. Before I did that I backed up my current saved settings;
Didn't matter though as Epson has a new format for the presets and I could
not import my old ones. After reloading the old driver on my laptop that
somehow got updated over the network and importing the ABW setting that I
had was I able to start printing again. Those numbers produced images of
substantially less ink. I'll be checking as the week goes along but for now
my fires are cooking other pots.

 

 

End of next week I'll be running more tests. So, I think that your system is
a great idea but you may need to break them into two groups, older driver
and those that are using the newer driver.

 

Eric 

 

 

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Walker
Blackwell
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 10:38 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: ABW ICC Profiles

 

Really? I charge $450 for one! ;-) But seriously, I don't want to step 
on toes if people are making money around the profile thing. I've 
seen an s-load of bad prints from my clients who are doing ABW and not 
color-managing. I end up giving them a gray-ramp and teaching them how 
to print the target and building them a profile all just so I don't 
have to mess with bad proofs constantly. In the long run it would be 
easier for me to just point them to a website and say, follow the 
instructions. I figure it would be easier for all of us. It's really 
fast to build ABW profiles so it wouldn't take much of my time.

In the long run, I want color managed ABW to become part of the 
printing culture just like ICC profiles are with color printing. So 
I'm trying to spread it big-time so it becomes common practice among 
not only technical people but every-day photographers that use ABW.

I've had really good results with ABW ICCs. I figure they could be 
spread around a bit.

Now I'm going to bed. I will wait for more feed-back before I start on 
something like this.

all the best,
Walker

 



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