Digital BW, The Print

It has been brought to my attention that Epson Russia has made the full
English version of the GrayBalancer available from their web site.  This
includes an English version of the User's Guide!

Windows: http://support.epson.ru/products/drivers/000780/gb_12ae.zip
Sorry, I couldn't find a Mac version on the site.

--Tom

Tom,
Thanks for the info on the gray balancer. I have the French 
instruction manual and have been waiting for an english translation. 
Is the download simply the instruction manual or does it include the 
software? I already have an english version of the software. Also, 
do you have experience using the gray balancer? Opinions?? Thanks!
Bill

I'm from Norway so the balancer came bundled with my printer. IMO 
you're not missing out on anything. It's very useful for removing 
gross color casts from your BW prints, but don't expect anything more 
than that. You have to trust your eyes being able to match printed 
squares of gray against a gray-card, and that's just not accurate 
enough to get near anywhere near perfect results.

The program works in the background and affects all your prints while 
it's active, so I guess it's also useful if you want to tone all your 
BW prints the same way without messing around in photoshop.

Personally I got much better results using canned profiles and minor 
curve-adjustments in photoshop than the gray-balancer.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "yonci2000 
<bcottman@w...>" <bcottman@w...> wrote:
> Tom,
> Thanks for the info on the gray balancer. I have the French 
> instruction manual and have been waiting for an english 
translation. 
> Is the download simply the instruction manual or does it include 
the 

> software? I already have an english version of the software. Also, 
> do you have experience using the gray balancer? Opinions?? Thanks!
> Bill