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Newbie's luck printing B/W on 2200

Newbie's luck printing B/W on 2200

2003-11-06 by Joe Thibodeau

I've been having a grand time playing with the B/W capabilities of 
the 2200. In fact I've been having better luck with B/W than with 
color. I've been able to get some rather nice prints out of the 2200 
with little tweaking of parameters. And I have been using the color 
mixer in PS7 to adjust the tonality of the print. It's still not 
silver but I am very satisfied with the results using UC inks. I've 
been doing some comparisons with samples from a company that prints 
using Cone Selenium and Sundance inks. I wish I had their sample 
image so I could see if I can match tonality, contrast, shadow and 
highlight detail one to one. Because I have different images the 
best I can do is make visual comparisons of similar areas in each 
image.

I am simply blown away by the Epson 2200. Of course I have never 
used the other Epson printers with B/W inksets so I have no 
comparison other than the samples from a service bureau.

I do have a question though. Obviously Epson includes profiles for 
their papers as a means to lock in that market. I want to use the 
Hanahmuele (did I spell that right?) Torchon 285 paper. Any tips for 
profiling this paper and other papers?

Thanks ... I am happy to be printing B/W in daylight ...

Re: [Digital BW] Newbie's luck printing B/W on 2200

2003-11-06 by Steve Kale

See the following site.  I would strongly recommend these profiles over the
Epson ones for the papers profiled.

http://lenscraft.com/profiles/

For B&W, if you are on a Mac you should explore QTR....

http://harrington.com/QuadToneRIP.html

You will probably be dramatically surprised by the increase in B&W
capability.

Cheers

Steve
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From: "Joe Thibodeau" <jetcode@...>
Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 17:53:54 -0000
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Newbie's luck printing B/W on 2200


I've been having a grand time playing with the B/W capabilities of
the 2200. In fact I've been having better luck with B/W than with
color. I've been able to get some rather nice prints out of the 2200
with little tweaking of parameters. And I have been using the color
mixer in PS7 to adjust the tonality of the print. It's still not
silver but I am very satisfied with the results using UC inks. I've
been doing some comparisons with samples from a company that prints
using Cone Selenium and Sundance inks. I wish I had their sample
image so I could see if I can match tonality, contrast, shadow and
highlight detail one to one. Because I have different images the
best I can do is make visual comparisons of similar areas in each
image.

I am simply blown away by the Epson 2200. Of course I have never
used the other Epson printers with B/W inksets so I have no
comparison other than the samples from a service bureau.

I do have a question though. Obviously Epson includes profiles for
their papers as a means to lock in that market. I want to use the
Hanahmuele (did I spell that right?) Torchon 285 paper. Any tips for
profiling this paper and other papers?

Thanks ... I am happy to be printing B/W in daylight ...




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Re: [Digital BW] Newbie's luck printing B/W on 2200

2003-11-06 by Joe Thibodeau

Thanks for the great links Steve ... Joe

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale 
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
> See the following site.  I would strongly recommend these profiles 
over the
> Epson ones for the papers profiled.
> 
> http://lenscraft.com/profiles/
> 
> For B&W, if you are on a Mac you should explore QTR....
> 
> http://harrington.com/QuadToneRIP.html
> 
> You will probably be dramatically surprised by the increase in B&W
> capability.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Steve
> 
> From: "Joe Thibodeau" <jetcode@a...>
> Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 17:53:54 -0000
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Newbie's luck printing B/W on 2200
> 
> 
> I've been having a grand time playing with the B/W capabilities of
> the 2200. In fact I've been having better luck with B/W than with
> color. I've been able to get some rather nice prints out of the 
2200
> with little tweaking of parameters. And I have been using the color
> mixer in PS7 to adjust the tonality of the print. It's still not
> silver but I am very satisfied with the results using UC inks. I've
> been doing some comparisons with samples from a company that prints
> using Cone Selenium and Sundance inks. I wish I had their sample
> image so I could see if I can match tonality, contrast, shadow and
> highlight detail one to one. Because I have different images the
> best I can do is make visual comparisons of similar areas in each
> image.
> 
> I am simply blown away by the Epson 2200. Of course I have never
> used the other Epson printers with B/W inksets so I have no
> comparison other than the samples from a service bureau.
> 
> I do have a question though. Obviously Epson includes profiles for
> their papers as a means to lock in that market. I want to use the
> Hanahmuele (did I spell that right?) Torchon 285 paper. Any tips 
for
> profiling this paper and other papers?
> 
> Thanks ... I am happy to be printing B/W in daylight ...
> 
> 
> 
> 
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