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Re: I inherited an Epson 4000 that I'd like to convert to B&W printing.

2009-05-15 by Greg

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Jon Cone" <jon@...> wrote:

> 
> Aadenburg Imaging and Archives is now testing our inks at this point, and I will be abandoning my Suntest Atlas, because in my opinion Aardenburg's the only facility out there that gives useful and accurate color/density loss information to end-users rather than feeding only 35% density loss data to manufacturers who in turn lead users to believe its a holistic accounting of ink performance.
> 
> Jon


Why not keep the Sun machine and just use a spectro to look at color and density shifts? Just measuring density has always been a dumb idea, there are a lot of things that may not shift density very much, but change color radically.

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