Digital BW, The Print

anyone know of any guides, info or turials online about Epson ABW?

thanks

Hello Tim,

>anyone know of any guides, info or turials online about Epson ABW?

Not sure what you're looking for.  Do you have a K3 printer and are
looking for deeper technical workings, or are you kicking tires and
want general info on how it works?


Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm

> Not sure what you're looking for.  Do you have a K3 printer and are
> looking for deeper technical workings, or are you kicking tires and
> want general info on how it works?
>

running a new K3 printers - looking fro something along the lines of 
the Digital Darkroom articles they used to do on settings for Epson 
printers, setting up Colour Management in Photoshop etc. But 
something "real world" rather than full of tech specs

So something fairly straightforward on what the different settings in 
ABW actually do and how to tweak them - rather than running through 
another hundred sheets of paper and ink doing endless tests...

pretty much all there is to know about ABW is:

1) there are four settings for darkness. Most people use "Darker" but  
some people use "dark". It depends on the gamma setting you have in  
your system. Try them. One will work better. That is two test prints.
2) You need to use the right setting for "media". If you use premium  
semi gloss, choose premium semi gloss etc. This is no brainer with  
"supported papers", other papers might need some experimentation  
here. The good thing is that the 2400 is really forgiving here. For  
kirkland I choose epson premium glossy, for semimatte i choose  
premium semi-gloss. No problems with either.
3) There is a color wheel that you can choose diferent tones from.  
Either by clicking in the wheel or by entering values. Most of us  
have found that equal values for verticle and horizontal work well.  
My favorite setting is 4H/4V, but values such as 8H/8V, and 15H/15V  
give more warmth almost to sepia at 25H/25V.
4) there are two sliders that change the tone in the shadows and the  
highlight separately. This control is VERY sublte. I alway have my  
shadow slider at about -10, and my highlight slider at about +5, but  
it is a very slight adjustment.

the only way to know for sure what the controls do is to make a  
preint. The good thing is that you are for sure going to get a good  
print every time, as long as you use epson papers. Epson papers are  
great papers by the way. Sticking to epson still gives you some  
excellent variety, from glossy to Velvet fine art.

I think that is really all there is to it. Simple, productive, and no  
expensive test printing like the "old days"
have a good one, Doug M

On Feb 16, 2006, at 12:49 PM, Tim Atherton wrote:

>
> > Not sure what you're looking for.  Do you have a K3 printer and are
> > looking for deeper technical workings, or are you kicking tires and
> > want general info on how it works?
> >
>
> running a new K3 printers - looking fro something along the lines of
> the Digital Darkroom articles they used to do on settings for Epson
> printers, setting up Colour Management in Photoshop etc. But
> something "real world" rather than full of tech specs
>
> So something fairly straightforward on what the different settings in
> ABW actually do and how to tweak them - rather than running through
> another hundred sheets of paper and ink doing endless tests...
>
>
>
>
>

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tim Atherton" <timatherton@...> 
wrote:
>
>> 
> running a new K3 printers - looking fro something along the lines of 
> the Digital Darkroom articles they used to do on settings for Epson 
> printers, setting up Colour Management in Photoshop etc. But 
> something "real world" rather than full of tech specs
> 
> So something fairly straightforward on what the different settings in 
> ABW actually do and how to tweak them - rather than running through 
> another hundred sheets of paper and ink doing endless tests...
>


Try this site it may help: http://photoshopnews.com/2005/05/16/epson-r2400-and-
ultrachrome-k3-ink-report/

Martin

"4) there are two sliders that change the tone in the shadows and the
highlight separately. This control is VERY sublte. I alway have my
shadow slider at about -10, and my highlight slider at about +5, but
it is a very slight adjustment."

Thanks - that helps

"3) There is a color wheel that you can choose diferent tones from.
Either by clicking in the wheel or by entering values. Most of us
have found that equal values for verticle and horizontal work well.
My favorite setting is 4H/4V, but values such as 8H/8V, and 15H/15V
give more warmth almost to sepia at 25H/25V."

This was one I wanted more info on. For example, if I use the 
Epson "canned"
standard for warm in ABW I can pick up the magenta in the print. I 
think I'm
like Clayton in that I am very sensitive to the subtle shifts to 
magenta or
green in  print made with colour inks. It has always been one of the 
issues
with Colorbyte - people would show me a print they said was a nice 
neutral
warm done in Imageprint and I'd reply - err no  - you can see the 
magenta
tint in it. (never mind the way OBA's seem to mess with this as well -
 which
I am seing on many of the glossy/semi-gloss papers now I can print o 
them
wit the K3 inks...!) - even when this is very subtle I tend to see it

So tweaking the colour wheel in ABW so far has been a game of not 
getting a
subtle magenta or green tint in there (which has never been a big 
issue with
QTR).

tim