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Re: dmax w/PFP is inferior to ABW

2007-04-07 by Michele Berti

Sorry to ask but how do you measure dmax with PFP? 

--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, "dealy663" <dealy663@...> wrote:
>
> On my 3800 I have not been able to get dmax much above 1.61 on
> Enhanced Matte measured with my PFP spectro when using a color managed
> workflow. It doesn't matter whether I'm using a PFP Extended target
> profile or the canned one from Epson. However when I'm printing with
> the ABW driver I'm getting 1.68.
> 
> The ability to tune the profiles is really neat in PFP, but so far
> this seems like a deal breaker when it comes to BW output. 
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions about what can be done to get the max
> black out of the system when using color mgmt?
>

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