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). > > I'm sure it's not perfectly linear, but my curve seems to work. > Here the curve for the Epson Premium Glossy: > > http://www.andreaolivotto.com/test/R265/PremGlossyPP-BO.qidf > > 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 > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] R265 (R260) BO with the original ink
2007-10-25 by Roy Harrington
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