Digital BW, The Print

Tyler, The point was, that 23 profiles produced very nice black and white
prints. You'd be happy with any of them. The profile for the Epson Archival
Matte paper MAY be better than one of the 23, but we'll never know, because
Cone simply won't profile the most used of all papers. for folks on the
various lists. I can't say for 100 percent certain, but I don't think the
epson profile would be THAT much better than one of the other 23.

And about 2 years ago I bought 2 custom profiles from Cone Studios, and
Neither of them produced a print nearly as nice as I could get with tweaking
the Epson sliders. This was for Color inks, (Generations) on Aspen and
Glacier Papers. The prints made with his profiles were washed out and light.
So profiles aren't everything.


>
> > But if you print all 25 profiles on say, epson archival matte
> paper, they'll all print extremely close to each other. You will have
> 22 useable prints, and have a hard time telling them apart. (3 of
> them are darker and contrastier than the others)
> >
> Jerry Jerry Jerry
> But none of those profiles are made for EAM, are they? They are made
> to deal with specific issues for the intended papers.
> Perhaps they are wasting thier time optimizing the way that ink goes
> down on that paper through that model Epson in
> ways your discerning eye considers pointless...

Out of curiosity have you ever ran the 27 cone profiles using one image on
the same paper to see the differences

>
> > ...I suppose you could just choose the 3 or 4 papers you really
> like and then have someone profile them for you.
>
> Oh yea? How? Profiling software and hardware are for making profiles
> to correct color. They have no way of knowing the
> desired end result of partitioning monochromatic inks. Creating quad
> profiles...

Well Cone must know how, he's made 27 of them for Piezo inks and his
papers....

JErry