Digital BW, The Print

I struggled with profiles and the Epson/photoShop print software for years. I nearly died of distraction. Changing profile for a different paper I found more difficult than having a divorce or buying a house. The whole thing is designed to make you use their papers and make it as difficult as possible to use other manufacturers who have a wealth of better papers.
 My solution was to buy Qimage professional version. If you haven't use it you are really missing out. not only is it not too expensive but worth every penny. New profiles are easy to save and use, you  just choose tthem from your library of profiles, easy as that. And it lets you print more than one image on a sheet of paper. Why do Epson not think this is useful. U use an A2 printer and do all my batch printing on it and it is a joy. It even sorts out your different sized prints and saves paper in doing so. Qimages sharpening I reckon is better than PS's Unsharp Mask AND it works out the best resolution to print at for you printer, no worrying about setting it in advance.
 Please do yourself a favour and get Qimage. I don't work for them or have anything to do with the company but I'm sure glad i discovered them. printing is now actually fun rather than a nightmare. I think it's digitals best kept secret.
 Jules


 
 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "AnnMarie" <faeofavalon@...> wrote:
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> Hello everyone -
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> I am setting up my laptop to do printing now with my Epson 2400 and when I installed the  driver, it didn't have the newer Epson profiles. I downloaded them from Epson's site, installed them but when I go to print, the choices are not there yet under "Paper Settings". Am I supposed to find the icc profiles on my hard drive and move them somewhere? On my older Mac, I had them but don't remember how they got there.
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> By the way, I am now the proud owner of a Samsung SyncMaster 2033 (20 inch) and so far so good! I am just trying to tweak the calibration a bit more.
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> AnnMarie
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