Digital BW, The Print

There are new media tables but I wouldn't think they would put  
different ink limits in . . . That would screw up the entire print  
community at large, no?

I have updated one printer and haven't seen a difference when printing  
from PS. I think this is probably how the Epson driver interprets the  
source/output-space coming out of Qimage? I had this problem with  
Lightroom and networked 9600 drivers. The driver update fixed the  
problem.

Please do further tests (I will as well) and let me know if stuff  
changes. When (if) I start doing the project, I will put info up on  
driver version if we determine that ink limits are actually changing.

I'm printing out of CS3 for these profiles . . .

Walker




On Apr 12, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Eric Neilsen wrote:

> 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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