Digital BW, The Print

A few days ago I responded to a question (message 70525) regarding how to make small 
test prints on the Epson 4800. I mentioned a "paper size check" feature that had to be 
reset to "off"from it's default "on" setting. Here's how to do it:

Press the Menu button twice. That takes you to "platen gap". Now press the down arrow 
five times. That takes you to "paper size check". Press menu and toggle the setting to "off". 
Now the printer will allow you to feed a smaller piece of paper than the standard paper 
size that you have entered in the printer set-up. Put the paper in the far right hand of the 
printer tray. Uncheck "centered", and enter the coordinates that will put the print in the 
upper left corner of the paper it thinks it is printing on. Orient the image so that it will 
print fully on the paper you are feeding. And print.

What, roughly, is the smallest sheet on which the 4800 is known to be 
able to print in this way?

Thanks.
--
Sam


At 9:54 PM +0000 11/29/05, rgoldman2 wrote:

>
>A few days ago I responded to a question (message 70525) regarding 
>how to make small
>test prints on the Epson 4800. I mentioned a "paper size check" 
>feature that had to be
>reset to "off"from it's default "on" setting. Here's how to do it:
>
>Press the Menu button twice. That takes you to "platen gap". Now 
>press the down arrow
>five times. That takes you to "paper size check". Press menu and 
>toggle the setting to "off".
>Now the printer will allow you to feed a smaller piece of paper than 
>the standard paper
>size that you have entered in the printer set-up. Put the paper in 
>the far right hand of the
>printer tray. Uncheck "centered", and enter the coordinates that 
>will put the print in the
>upper left corner of the paper it thinks it is printing on. Orient 
>the image so that it will
>print fully on the paper you are feeding. And print.

I just made an experiment with my 4800. I fed a 3 5/8 by 4 5/8 piece of Premium Semi 
Matte and it printed a slightly smaller image on the paper, following the procedure for 
making small prints that I outlined earlier. The printer did not feed the paper squarely, but 
it did feed it through so that almost the whole print was on the paper; it was off true about 
an eigth of an inch.  I place the print in the extreme upper left of the paper (0.0). If I had 
given it a bit of breathing room (an eigth of an inch or so) it all would have been on the 
paper.When the print was finish, the printer transport  could not move the paper into the 
paper tray; I had to retrieve it by hand. I have not tried going a bit larger, but I'm guessing 
it can properly handle a 4 x 5 inch long sheet. I'm not sure how the transport works; one 
dimension is probably more critical than the other.

On this web page

<http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/content_page.asp?cid=7-7889-8132>

there's an article on Bill Atkinson's new profiles for the widest of 
Epson's new printers. But this quote indicates his work might also 
benefit at least some of the rest of us too, at least when printing 
in color. I don't understand it well enough, however, to know whether 
this is relevant at all to B&W printing:

>[snip]
>
>The eight different gamut mappings come courtesy of the options 
>available in the five programs he used to build the profiles: 
>ColorSavvy ProfilePrinterDeluxe v5.3, ColorVision ProfilerPro, 
>Fujifilm ColourKit 4.3.1b1, GretagMacbeth ProfileMaker Pro 5.0.5 
>and X-Rite MonacoProfiler 4.7.2. Though not all of the makers of 
>these packages permit the resulting profiles to be freely 
>distributed normally, Atkinson secured the necessary permissions.
>
>All of the targets were printed on an Epson 9800 that was calibrated 
>with Epson ColorBase first. As such, they should work equally well 
>with a calibrated 7800. Plus, Atkinson noted in an email exchange 
>that the profiles may also be applicable to a calibrated 4800, but 
>not the R2400 (or older printers that don't use the Ultrachrome K3 
>inkset). His comments on the level of compatibility with these 
>printer models are based on recent feedback from Epson, rather than 
>his own testing, however. In making three prints today 
>on our ColorBase-calibrated 4800,  the results with Atkinson's 
>ProfileMaker 5.0.5-generated profiles were a close match to ones we 
>had generated with the same software earlier this week. This 
>suggests that 4800 users, in addition to those running a 7800 or 
>9800, may find it worthwhile to check out Atkinson's new profile 
>offerings.
>
>In fact, even if you don't own any of these printers, but you're 
>considering the purchasing of one of these profiling packages, 
>Atkinson's profile collections provide useful information about the 
>quality of the profiles each package generates and whether one 
>application's handling of the perceptual rendering intent is 
>better-suited to the types of photos you print. You can of course 
>compare the relative colorimetric intents in the packages too.
>[snip]

--
Sam

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Possibly people who print toned images from RGB. ABW settings are not
intuitive and softproofing difficult.



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Sam McCandless
<samcc@v...> wrote:

>
> On this web page
> 
> <http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/content_page.asp?cid=7-7889-8132>
> 
> there's an article on Bill Atkinson's new profiles for the widest of 
> Epson's new printers. But this quote indicates his work might also 
> benefit at least some of the rest of us too, at least when printing 
> in color. I don't understand it well enough, however, to know whether 
> this is relevant at all to B&W printing: