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Re: [colorvision_group] Re: PrintFixPro 2.0 beta
2006-10-13 by CDTobie@aol.com
In a message dated 10/13/06 7:12:52 AM, rlphoto@... writes:
Thanks CD, anyway since I have a 4000/7600 how will the new version
help me?
It won't work magic, since it runs via the RGB driver; so whatever gray generation your driver uses will be what you get. 4000/7600 generation printers, that create light grays from LtC, LtM, and Y will still be less precise than more recent printers that use extra light gray to replace a lot of the color in neutrals and near neutrals of light tone. And the light grays will still have more metamerism under various light sources than the newer models as well. But if you are printing B&W using standard color inksets from these printers now, then PFP2 should improve your results doing so. It will be better B&W, just not gallery quality B&W.
Gallery quality from these older models will still require a third party inkset and some method to drive it (and PrintFIX PRO may well be used to linearize and/or profile such systems, but not via standard ICC profiles). I'd love to see B&W oriented inksets that can be controlled via PrintFIX PRO2.0 profiles developed, so that users can get gallery quality B&W with custom profiling and previewing from such printers by dedicating them to B&W only, but we need to get the first 2.0 release done and out to users before looking into more advanced issues like third party ink support.
At the moment PFP will support any color inkset that prints properly through the driver, and can be used with Paul Roark's "hack" for the R2400, by replacing the yellow cart with one of his carbon-gray carts for B&W printing. Whether variations on that system for older models can be developed is still an open question, but Paul and I both see PrintFIX PRO profiling of specialty inksets as a good idea, worth pursuing in the future.
C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Division
DataColor Inc.
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