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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] R265 (R260) BO with the original ink

2007-10-25 by Roy Harrington

Hi Andrea,

There are also a number of black-only profiles made by Paul for MIS inks but
they will likely be pretty good for the Epson inks.  See the R260-MIS folder/
Printer Model.

Roy

On 10/23/07, vtube75 <vtube@...> wrote:
> Many thanks to Roy Harrington for QuadToneRIP, it's excellent!
> An to Paul Roark for the very useful info of his website.
>
> When I bought my R265 I was very upset because I couldn't print in
> black-only with the original driver.
>
> But now with QuadToneRIP 2.5.2 I start to experiment, and I've just
> created a simple curve for BO with the original black ink from EPSON.
> I have a cheap Canon 646 scanner, uncalibrated, and it's unuseful in
> the deep shadows so I tried to "guess" a curve using only ink limit
> (18) and gamma (1.7).
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> I'm sure it's not perfectly linear, but my curve seems to work.
> Here the curve for the Epson Premium Glossy:
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> http://www.andreaolivotto.com/test/R265/PremGlossyPP-BO.qidf
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> I printed many test images and gray scales, it is really no bad. The
> tiny dots of R265 are visible only looking at less than 15cm.
>
> Original ink from EPSON seems a bit warm and non metameric, just a bit
> (nearly not visible) of green cast under neon lamp. The prints should
> last very long, longer from the usual tests from the Wilhelm site
> because I'm using only the black ink.
>
> I'll appreciate any comment, and better if any volunteer will measure
> it :-)))
>
> Andrea
> http://www.andreaolivotto.com
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