Datacolor User to User Support Group.

John

I presume these were printed without any Color Management or color controls
by the driver, other than that imposed by the media setting. You then ranked
them by the dmax achieved. I agree with your rational for choice of media
setting, but I don't quite understand how dmax equates to ink load. Perhaps
ink load is irrelevant and dmax (and smoothness) is what is important.

Tom Moore

> -----Original Message-----
> From: colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John Vitollo
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 1:01 PM
> To: colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [colorvision_group] Re: Ink Limits and Epson Settings

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> 
> Take a look at my Excel chart on 4800 matte media settings with William
> Turner:
> 
> http://homepage.mac.com/johnvito/WilliamTurnerMediaSettings.png
> 
> The chart places the ink media settings in the following order from
> heaviest to lightest:
> 
> Heavy-
> EnhancedMatte
> VelvetFineArt
> UltraSmooth
> WaterColor
> TexturedArt
> Lightest-
> 
> But out all the media settings UltraSmooth has the smoothest ramp (no
> reversals) from
> 100% to 90%, and that was my choice to build William Turner profiles with.
> 
> Not sure what printer you have but I think you'll need to do your own
> tests to find the best
> media settings. 1440 lays down less ink than 2880....so take that into
> consideration.
> 

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