----- Original Message -----
From: "James Strain" <platinumjstrain@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Odd B&W Printing issue
David: Totally agree that I have not tried everything to rule out
everything. I was really hoping that there was something simple that I was
missing. I will try both another profile that I have made and one of the
Epson canned profiles to see whether they work. It was clearly somekind of
communication error between the computer and the printer. Jim
--- On Mon, 12/8/08, cdtobie <CDTobie@...> wrote:
From: cdtobie <CDTobie@...>
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Odd B&W Printing issue
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 10:25 AM
This is not anything I've ever heard of, and I'm deeply suspicious of your
implied cause and effect. Please print the same image twice, once with
another custom profile, and again with this one, and confirm that this quirk
happens with only this profile. I will bet it does not. Your current
comparison has too many variables to be conclusive.. .
-
C. David Tobie
WW Product Technology Manager
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
Datacolor
CDTobie@datacolor. com
www.datacolor. com/spyder3
On Dec 8, 2008, at 10:05:02 AM, "James Strain" <platinumjstrain@ ameritech.
net> wrote:
From: "James Strain" <platinumjstrain@ ameritech. net>
Subject: [Digital BW] Odd B&W Printing issue
Date: December 8, 2008 10:05:02 AM EST
To: DigitalBlackandWhit eThePrint@ yahoogroups. com
Folks - Help.\ufffd MacPro, MAC OSX 10.5.*, Epson 3800.\ufffd Latest driver, I
believe.\ufffd Have an 8-bit RGB, but B&W image that I am attempting to print.\ufffd
To get a color closer to my platinum-palladium prints, I went into
Hue/Saturation in Photoshop (CS3), checked colorize, took Hue to 35 and
Saturation to 5.\ufffd Resulted in a rich looking color on screen.\ufffd \ufffd
\ufffd
I then attempted to print using Photoshop CS3 - Photoshop manages colors
selecting a profile for the paper that I made using Datacolor Spyder3 Print,
with the extended gray set.\ufffd In the Epson driver, chose "No color
management."\ufffd Instead of printing, the printer reported that it was
receiving data, and periodically, the printhead would make a run across the
paper but not lay down any ink.\ufffd Just for fun (and to make sure the computer
and printer were talking to each\ufffd other), \ufffd I left every setting the same,
reloaded the\ufffd same piece of paper, and selected in Photoshop\ufffd "Printer
manages color" and in the Epson Driver "Advanced B&W" with a selection of\ufffd
enhanced warm tones that I like.\ufffd Printed like a charm, quickly, accurately,
but not as richly as I think the profiled print should have been.\ufffd
\ufffd
To be sure, I had printed the Datacolor test page after creating the ex gray
profile and it printed beautifully.\ufffd Anyone run across this problem?\ufffd Thx.\ufffd
Jim
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