Digital BW, The Print

Does anyone know where to find curve files for MIS inks in the Epson 
980, that doesn't require paying a fortune for PhotoShop?  I love 
PictureWindow, and would like to experiment with MIS Quadtones in my 
980.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks!

-Kiefer Elliott
Vancouver, Canada

Kiefer:

You could try the RGB partitioned curves/workflow developed for the 
quad 1160 or the lumped (non-partitioned) curve/workflow developed by 
Woolf.  Both were developed for EAM/EEH.  I haven't tried them on the 
980--maybe someone elso reading this might have experimented.

These workflows can be downloaded from the MIS website (Quad workflow 
page) at:

http://www.inksupply.com/index.cfm?source=html/workflow.html.

My workflow and an outline of how I developed the workflow using 
PWpro (profile_make2.pdf) are also posted here in 
Files/InkSets/MIS/MIS FS.

The pdf should give you guidance of how to optimize the RGB curves 
(or lumped curve if you go that way) for your quad printer.  PWpro is 
ideal for this, much easier than PhotoShop because of PW's overall 
superior curves/histogram feature. The screen shot in the pdf is from 
PW. 

BTW: Jonathan Sachs modified PW sometime ago to read PhotoShop .acv 
and map files so PS is not needed to print BW.

Good Luck.

Jeff Randall



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "by_design" 
<by_design@y...> wrote:
> Does anyone know where to find curve files for MIS inks in the 
Epson 
> 980, that doesn't require paying a fortune for PhotoShop?  I love 
> PictureWindow, and would like to experiment with MIS Quadtones in 
my 

> 980.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks!
> 
> -Kiefer Elliott
> Vancouver, Canada