2006-12-02 by Steve Kale
I find this a rather peculiar post. This forum is to help people print B&W photographs. Frankly I couldn¹t care less as to whether the leading voices on
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2006-12-02 by garyphoto6
Hello, Has anyone received a new 3800 yet. Any news on release date? Thanks, Gary
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2006-12-02 by Gary Brown
I think it would be nice, if people posting on this list include a place where their images can be seen. I realize that viewing images on the net isn t ideal,
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2006-12-02 by CDTobie@aol.com
... Indeed, for any printers that do not have a light gray ink (light light black in Epson s terminology) there is significant metameric shift with differing
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2006-12-02 by Paul Roark
... The fewer color inks in the image, the better. The 2400 Y = Carbon solution really helps with that printer, yellow being probably the worst offender when
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2006-12-02 by mbutler355
... Hi Michael, It looks to me like the new curves function allows a little bit of control over a picture s quarter tones and three-quarter tones, which is
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2006-12-02 by Tad Doxsee
All, Thanks for the advise. So it looks like some first good steps would be to try the Piezography Neutral K7/K6 inks on my R800 on some different matte
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2006-12-02 by dlruckus
I don t think you are missing much at all, Paul. I also did and do both. I like both but I must say that, for me at least, B&W has always been an exacting
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2006-12-02 by bwinkjet
Hi, Crop in PS 347x10 px =3470 px for one dimension and 347x8 px =2776 px for the other and print an 8x10 image of the crop (fixed size in the rectangular
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2006-12-02 by Richard Cooke
Hi Folks, This is somewhat off topic but I d like to hear an easy method to print a portion of an image. I have a file that I d like to print to a size of 16
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2006-12-02 by neilsphoto
OK so this is a question, well maybe several about QTR and various inksets. I ve done searchs here but this is maybe more basic than the topics and threads I
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2006-12-01 by Diane Fields
The only thing I would ask is if your monitor is calbrated--I didn t understand that from your post. Best, Diane ... the screen what is coming out of the
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2006-12-01 by michael3442
Newbie here. I m learning digital B&W printing using PSE 4 and a 2200 (1st trying B.O.) and was poking around the Adobe site when I came across some info. on
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2006-12-01 by Daniel Staver
I recently printed a whole exhibition using one of your curves converted to ICC using QTR-Create-ICC-RGB linearized with my X-Rite 810 densitometer. I made a
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2006-12-01 by A.Zwaan
I am a myself new in the field of B&W digital printing and it took me about a month, which I can afford being retired, to get accustomed to the various aspects
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2006-12-01 by Nancy Wilson
Thank you in advance for reading this and replying if you have the time. These questions may have (probably have) been answered previous posts. I have gone to
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2006-12-01 by bwinkjet
John, Just wanted to say I enjoy your comments on the Yahoo forums, this one included. I also enjoy the comments of people who offer new ideas and promote
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2006-12-01 by CDTobie@aol.com
... Indeed. We see in color, so color is obliged to be realistic to a large degree. We don t see in black and white, so its more free to be artistic, to
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2006-12-01 by Paul Roark
... One could say this about traditional B&W photography also. I think we risk taking something away from B&W photography if we pile on too much color
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2006-12-01 by CDTobie@aol.com
... There is certainly interest in continuing with both. I ve been doing a fair amount of comparison between full color inks via the ICC approach, and
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2006-12-01 by Bruce Watson
... Yep. Then we group members compound the problem by not defending the people who are actually bringing real world knowledge to this group. I should point
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2006-12-01 by Paul Roark
... I use MIS inks and have not found the bronzing to be too bad with many glossy paper, CSR being one of them. All the MIS inksets I ve been involved with
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2006-12-01 by Paul Roark
... Grayscale file + Create ICC + ABW makes a very nice workflow that is color managed with a grayscale ICC such that the print matches the monitor s
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2006-12-01 by john dean
As a post modern traditionalist I think it is really sad how this ) site has become primarily a blog for companies and photo salesmen selling the latest
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2006-12-01 by John Moody
True, there are benefits, but what about any drawbacks? Do you suggest that color-ICC is now working wonderfully, and there is no reason to continue with
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2006-12-01 by cjpaschke
... Thanks all for your feedback, very helpful!
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2006-12-01 by David Keenan
... grayscale ... Clayton -- These recent threads have revealed to me how little I really know about what I m doing when it comes to digital b&w printing. The
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2006-12-01 by CDTobie@aol.com
... Perhaps, but it, and the other traditionalist responses to it seem to miss the point that a color workflow supports all that and more. If you only want
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2006-12-01 by BKPhoto@aol.com
... You raise a very interesting point, Clayton; one that I ve devoted considerable thought to because of the university curriculum we continue to develop at
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2006-12-01 by David Keenan
... For cripes sake, I have wasted SO much time then profiling all of these papers... I had no idea that ICC weren t used in ABW mode. BTW -- Is PFP 2.0
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2006-12-01 by lours51
It seems that the folowing companies : Artech (Germany), Ink Lab Co. (Hong Kong), InkTec (Corea), Inkjetwarehouse (Connecticut) and Rhinotek Computer Products
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2006-12-01 by Steve Gledhill
Eric,
I read it that way too and offered the link simply as an interesting
perspective on something that is relevant to our world of digital B&W
printing.
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2006-12-01 by joemulligan_68
Just curious how you can get a carbon print with CSR without getting loads of bronzing. Which inkset do you recommend?
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2006-12-01 by rebphoto
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm................... Ran another print Seems ok now............... Russ R.E. Baker Photography rebphoto@stny.rr.com Feed a Cat... Starve a
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2006-12-01 by rebphoto
Hi Gang I am printing with an Epson 1280 on Ilford Gallerie Classic Pearl with MIS UT2 Inks. I am setting the printer to vivid It seems that no matter what I
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2006-12-01 by Clayton Jones
Dave, Roy and CDavid, ... This fundamental difference is one which often gets lost in the discussions. This exchange has illustrated it very nicely and I hope
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2006-12-01 by Eric Neilsen
Steve, There are many modern artist that are making statements with stuff . They either have no knowledge or care as to the lasting quality of the material
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2006-12-01 by CDTobie@aol.com
... Which is why we build a tinted profile function into PrintFIX PRO 2.0. That means that users accustomed to printing grayscale images to a workflow that
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2006-12-01 by Clayton Jones
Robert and cjpaschke, ... Robert, thanks for the mention. Cjpaschke, the article Robert is referring to is #10 at this link
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2006-11-30 by robert49brake
... user ... If 8.5x11 is sufficient for size you can t beat the Epson R220, available anywhere for under a hundred US and for as little as 50 if you shop
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2006-11-30 by Bruce Watson
... And this is the way many (most?) of us would like to see it continue to be. Thanks for making some sense Roy. -- Bruce Watson / /
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2006-11-30 by Steve Gledhill
Tom,
Apologies for slow response here. I don t understand your one
clarification . Perhaps you didn t actually follow and read the link.
My points are
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2006-11-30 by Roy Harrington
... Sure, a grayscale workflow is fundamentally different than a color workflow. I don t know whether or not PFP can do a grayscale workflow -- early on I used
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2006-11-30 by CDTobie@aol.com
... ColorVision chose to use full 3D Look UpTable profiling instead, as it offers so much more control. You could run PrintFIX PRO through the AWB mode, I
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2006-11-30 by Roy Harrington
ABW is only non-ICC in that Epson does not supply any grayscale ICC profiles and none of the biggies in color management support grayscale profiling. However
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2006-11-30 by pglombick
Hi Tad. I was in the same boat a year ago, except with a R300. With the R800 you have the option of trying Piezo inks. I m not sure about other inks sets, but
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2006-11-30 by CDTobie@aol.com
... AWB is a non-ICC process; no profiles possible, not previews possible, no matching one device to another possible. Thats why I print my Epson B&W via color
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2006-11-30 by Florent Thouret
... In fact, that sounds correct to me... and logical, after all. Thanks a lot for your advices ! Florent
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2006-11-30 by cjpaschke
I ve done traditional film printing, but I would like to get into Digital B&W. I m starting from scratch and have a few questions: 1)It looks like I can get a
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2006-11-30 by David Keenan
As a PFP v1.1 owner, this thread prompts me to ask the following. How important is a custom profile, any profile, to printing in ABW mode with K3 inks? I have
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