Digital BW, The Print

Martin,

You wrote:

>Well you get more paper profiles I believe, including EAM,

I downloaded a set of profiles that included EAM and they showed up in the
paper selection box.  I don't know if these were intended for the ver. 6 and
won't work, since I don't have the right inks in there now.

>I really didn't see any difference in image quality with my 1200
>between the two versions.

That's what I was most interested in.  Of course, if the EAM profile doesn't
work, that could be worth something.  I've always used the Cone Tech Matte
profile.  Do you see any significant differences between these two with EAM?

Paul

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--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Paul Roark"
<paul.roark@v...> wrote:
> Piezo users,
>
> I use just 4-ink printers (1160 & 3000) and have the last Piezo
update for
> them, I think (513e).  What does the version 6 add, if anything,
that would

> visibly improve output with my quads?
>
> Paul

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Paul Roark" 
<paul.roark@v...> wrote:
> Martin,
> 
> You wrote:
> 
> >Well you get more paper profiles I believe, including EAM,
> 
> I downloaded a set of profiles that included EAM and they showed up 
in the
> paper selection box.  I don't know if these were intended for the 
ver. 6 and
> won't work, since I don't have the right inks in there now.
> 
> >I really didn't see any difference in image quality with my 1200
> >between the two versions.
> 
> That's what I was most interested in.  Of course, if the EAM 
profile doesn't
> work, that could be worth something.  I've always used the Cone 
Tech Matte
> profile.  Do you see any significant differences between these two 
with EAM?
> 
Paul,

I wish I could give you a hard data answer on this but I shut down my 
1200 two days ago to make room for a second 1280. I don't think the 
profiles are version dependent but I can't be sure. If there was a 
difference in the profiles, I think that is was very slight. As I 
have found with the VM curves, they print very similarly over all the 
Epson matte and Hahbnemuhle papers. People also noted with the 
version 5 of Piezo that there was not a huge difference between the 
profiles in many cases.

On the one hand the upgrade is only $49 but if you don't really need 
it...? If you are not having a problem with printing in 8-bit or 
centering images precisely on the paper you might want to save your 
money. I guess if you are happy with what you are getting, why change?

Martin

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Paul Roark" <paul.roark@v...> 
wrote:
 
> I downloaded a set of profiles that included EAM and they showed up in the
> paper selection box.  I don't know if these were intended for the ver. 6 and
> won't work, since I don't have the right inks in there now.
> 
> >I really didn't see any difference in image quality with my 1200
> >between the two versions.
> 
> That's what I was most interested in.  Of course, if the EAM profile doesn't
> work, that could be worth something.  I've always used the Cone Tech Matte
> profile.  Do you see any significant differences between these two with 
EAM?

Paul,

the latest EAM profile for 4 color printers  (1160 in my case) runs identically 
between piezoBW driver versions 512 and 602. 

As for the difference between the latest EAM and CTmatte profiles, please see 
the graph I just uploaded in Files>Message Related Files>Dec 01

The graph is based on the values obtained when I subtract the ct matte 
densities from the eam densities (i.e. density difference = EAM-CTmatte).


Antonis